LIGHTING THE EASTER FIRE outside Maria Hilf
"We have about 6 to 8 altar servers each Sunday, children between the ages of about eight to fifteen years. They are all very enthusiastic and come regularly to assist at the Sunday Masses. Beside them we have another array of four to six adults who are also able to do the altar service."
Traveling for the Mass
Cologne has a substantial international community, but "the parishioners of our church are nearly exclusively Germans, many of them inhabitants of Cologne, but also many who come from outside Cologne. For a couple of years we had a French family that came every Sunday, with two children who also helped as altar servers."
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