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Institutio generalis Missalis Romani

IGMR · Congregation for Divine Worship · 2003 · EN · 399 paragraphs · vatican.va ↗

The duties that the acolyte may carry out are of various kinds and several may coincide. Hence, it is desirable that these duties be suitably distributed among several acolytes. If, however, only one acolyte is present, he should perform the more important duties while the rest are to be distributed among several ministers.