Servers should be familiar with the main parts of the mass and their responsibilities during each part.

The Order of Mass is laid out in the missal (DWM pgs 559-658)

The typical Order of Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham is as follows:

• Prayers before Mass (in the Sacristy)

• Organ voluntary

• Entrance hymn

• Introductory Rites

  • Introit

  • Salutation

  • Collect for Purity

  • Summary of the Law

  • Kyrie

  • Gloria in Exclesis Deo

  • Collect of the Day

• Liturgy of the Word

  • Lesson

  • Psalm

  • Epistle

  • Gospel Acclamation

  • Gospel Proclamation

  • Homily

  • Creed

  • Prayers of the People

  • Penitential Rite

  • Comfortable words

• Announcements

• Liturgy of the Eucharist

  • Offertory

    • Offertory Sentence

    • Offertory Antiphon

    • Offertory Anthem

    • Orate Fratres

    • Prayer over the Offerings

  • Eucharistic Prayers

    • Sursum Corda

    • Preface

    • Sanctus and Benedictus

    • Canon of the Mass

      • Te Igitur

      • Commemoration of the Living

      • Within the Action

      • Hanc Igitur

      • Pre-consecration Epiclesis

      • Consecration

      • Mysterium Fidei

      • Anamnesis

      • Supra Quae

      • Post-consecration Epiclesis

      • Commemoration of the Dead

      • Second Intercession

      • Per Quem

      • Per Ipsum

  • Communion Rite

    • Our Father

    • Peace

    • Fraction

    • Agnus Dei

    • Prayer of Humble Access

    • Ecce Agnus Dei

    • Domine, non Sum Dignus

    • Communion of the Faithful

      • Communion Antiphon

      • Communion Anthem

      • Communion Hymn

    • Ablutions

    • Prayer of Thanksgiving

    • Post Communion prayer

• Concluding Rites

  • Prayer Over the People (in Lent)

  • Blessing

  • Dismissal

  • Last Gospel (From Christmas to Candlemas)

• Recessional hymn

• Invocation of the saints

• Organ voluntary