Altar Care Linen Ministry

This is a silent, behind-the-scenes, but essential ministry that ensures the sacred linens used during our liturgical celebrations are clean, well-maintained, and available for use. This ministry is about reverently washing, ironing, folding, repairing, sewing and making, and returning these sacred items to the church on a regular basis— specifically the white altar cloth or fair linen (the long rectangular cloth that covers the altar from side to side to the floor) the coverlet (a cloth that lays over the fair linen and covers the top of the altar, or mensa, from side to side but not hanging over the sides) as well as the frontlets (colored “banners” that adorn the altar and the front of our ambo that are changed with the liturgical season (green for Ordinary Time, purple for Advent and Lent, white for Easter, etc.) We would like to have a team of parishioners, some of whom are skilled in sewing, to organize this ministry. It will take two people to place the fair linen and coverlet on our altar when these linens are replaced. Training is provided.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Sue Gerlach, Sacred Heart Liturgy Coordinator, at 719-633-8711 x102 or sgerlach@sacredheartcos.org.