Cross Bearer

[CyrilSebastian]

                I was a Cross Bearer for the Feast of the Holy Family.

[CyrilSebastian]

I was a Cross Bearer for the Third Sunday of Lent.

[CyrilSebastian]

I was a Cross Bearer for the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

[CyrilSebastian]

                      I was a Cross Bearer for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.       
   
                         

[Poche]

I was the cross bearer for the Ash Wednesday mass last night.
 

[CyrilSebastian]

Sometimes at Mass there are only two altar servers.   
Then the cross is not carried. Each boy carries a lighted candle.

[CyrilSebastian]

Is a cross bearer required at a Sunday Catholic Mass?

[Benedict]

Is a cross bearer required at a Sunday Catholic Mass?

While not strictly necessary it is part of the introductory rites to process with the cross to the altar.