Do you have what it takes to be an acolyte?

Who are the acolytes? What do they do? Why do they do it? Why is it so important?

A lifelong member of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Katie Burke started asking those questions when she sang in the church’s Junior Choir.  Looking down from the Choir Loft on Sundays, she would watch the acolytes filing into the church. They wore robes and carried crosses, banners, torches, and candles. “They always seemed to be shrouded in mystery,” she says.