thurifer, acolytes and torchbearers.
Thurifer. The Turifer precedes the acolytes in the procession to the sanctuary. If no Asperges, he carries the thurible and incense boat. On Sundays he fetches the thurible after the Asperges. he stands holding it, on the Epistle side. When the celebrant ascends to the altar, the thurifer ascends the predella by the Epistle side, hands the boat to the deacon with the right hand, and holds the thurible while the celebrant puts in the incense and blesses it, receives the boat with the left hand and with the right gives the thurible to the deaacon, who passes it to the celebrant; the thurifer returns in plano. If there be no master of ceremonies, he puts down the boat and takes the missal stand from the altar during the incensation, afterwards replaces it, and waits on the epistle side till the celebrant has been incensed. The thurifer receives back the thurible from the deacon, and retires with it to the sacristy, and returns to the sanctuary.
Towards the end of the Epistle the thurifer fetches the thurible and brings it by the time the celebrant has finished reading the Gospel; he approaches the altar as before, and after the incense has been blessed, carrying the thurible in his right hand, he joins the acolytes and awaits the deacon in plano. genuflecting together with the sacred ministers, the thurifer takes his place at the right hand of the first acolyte, facing the Epistle side. When the triple sign of the Cross is being made, the thurible to the M.C. and after receiving it back returns to his place facing the Epistle side, taking care not to swing the thurible while while the Gospel is being sung. At the close, the thurible while the Gospel is being sung. At the close, the thurifer hands the thurible to the deacon, who incenses the celebrant and returns the thurible to the thurifer, who, with the thurible in his left hand, will take a position behind the subdeacon, and genuflect with the sacred ministers, and wait until the Credo is intoned to leave the sanctuary.
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