Why Be a Greeter or an Usher?

• Yours is the first of Christ’s faces to greet God’s people as they assemble for prayer.
• Your greeting of welcome is the first wish that “The Lord be with YOU!”
• Yours is the word that welcomes the stranger to be at home,
• or the silence that makes of our assembly a foreign land.
• Yours is the task of discretion:
• knowing how to welcome, and when and where to seat the latecomer.
• Yours may be the last word that ushers the community to its week of work in the Lord’s vineyard.
• Yours is the Lord’s face and voice for those who enter and depart the holy ground of prayer.
• Come to your work and your post from your heart.
• Be as ready as the Lord to meet his people!

Greeters - The ability to offer a welcoming & warm greeting and a friendly smile as parishioners arrive for Mass are the attributes of a good greeter.  

Ushers - Take up the collections, choose people from the congregation to bring up the gifts, and help people find seats when the Mass is crowded.

Contact Patrice Morace at 202-362-3323 x13 or morace@annunciationdc.org.