An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian religious service.

A lay assistant wrote that the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend to it on his return to London from Canterbury, but no further communication ever arrived.

Carrie Melbourne now works as a lay pastoral assistant in the church.

Mr. Thomas is Brother Julian, a lay assistant to a Roman Catholic cardinal (Tom Lacy).

Today the monastery is led by a bishop and a monk and some lay assistants, and is a school for orphans.

The collar was the hoop through which hammocks had to be passed, and the probable winner, to judge from the infinite mirth, was the loblolly boy, the surgeons' lay assistant.

A priest (often with lay assistants) celebrates the service, wearing an Alb and Stole.

In addition to clergy vesting in albs, stoles and chasubles, the lay assistants may also be vested in cassock and surplice.

In return for free lodging, and some tuition for the entrance exam (this has been questioned) Owen worked as lay assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden near Reading.

It may also be worn by lay assistants such as acolytes and choirs.