Handmade original Altar Server / Acolyte wooden doll ornament. Perfect for the Christmas Tree. Bring out on his feast day or for a Novena. Gift for a birthday or sacrament (Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Marriage) celebration. Teacher, priest, grandparent gift. An altar server is a lay assistant to the priest during Mass and other Church services, not to be confused with acolyte. Pre-Vatican II, the acolyte was the highest of the minor orders: lighting altar candles, carrying candles in procession, assisting deacons and ministering water/wine to the priest at Mass; wearing either an alb or surplice over a cassock, the order was conferred on a seminarian at a minor ordination.