Altar server
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An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell,
A Czech altar server
Fifty altar servers, during a celebration of a 50-year-old church, Gennep, Netherlands, September 2004
Since the 1990s, girls may serve at the altar in the Catholic Church. The Evangelical-Lutheran Churches have female altar servers as well.
An altar server carrying a thurible is called a thurifer
Laity
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In religious organizations, the laity – individually a layperson, layman or laywoman – consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious o
Altar server
…An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying…
The person standing in the pulpit wearing vestments is a cleric, whereas the people seated below are of the laity.