Abp. Burke: No altar girls or EMHCs at extraordinary form of the Mass

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Official Summorum Pontificum study
From the blog of Fr. Tim Finigan:

Breaking news of official Summorum Pontificum study
The Italian news service Androkronos has just put out a report that Archbishop Raymond Burke has said that** at the older form of the Roman Rite, it is not permitted to have altar girls (or women) serve at the altar, nor to have lay people distribute Holy Communion.** The brief report claims that he said this in an introduction to a Study that reviews the application of Summorum Pontificum as requested by the Holy Father for three years after its introduction.

The report says that the Study has just been released in Germany.
 
Now I’m confused. I didn’t think that was new–I thought it was already that way? Were people using EMHCs for the EF? But there is nothing in the rubrics that allows for them, so how could it be OK?

:ehh:

–Jen
 
**On the upside: ** Just as it should be - period.

On the downside: I really can’t understand how he can have double standards - using both at the NO. This shows that he really thinks that these issues are merely a matter of staying with the rubrics - not that there is any problem with using either, which I disagree with.
 
Just a question:

Why is it not acceptable to have female alter servers?

I understand the EMHC’s not being female, but why alter servers?

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Iotaunum said:
**On the upside: **Just as it should be - period.
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Totally agree!! 👍

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On the downside:
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I really can’t understand how he can have double standards - using both at the NO. This shows that he really thinks that these issues are merely a matter of staying with the rubrics - not that there is any problem with using either, which I disagree with.**

I don’t see this as a double standard - more like he is setting the groundwork to hopefully fix this in the NO as well. 😉 The reform of the reform!

Be patient - the world wasn’t created in a day. 😉

~Liza
 
as far as I understand it, letting a boy serve at the altar is a way to give him a taste of what it might be like to be a priest. It is a vocations tool. In that light, Altar girls are indeed a no-no.

Having said that, since there is nothing set in stone about ANYONE serving at the altar besides the priest (as far as dogma and doctrine) it is theoretically OK.

Cardinal Arinze has made some noise about getting rid of altar girls if it were up to him. I’m really hoping someday it will be 😉

If people were aware of other permitted liturgical traditions other than the OF (eastern liturgies, the EF, the anglican use to my knowledge) none of these permit altar girls. The NO shouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb.
 
FidesSpesCarita said:
Just a question:

Why is it not acceptable to have female alter servers?

I understand the EMHC’s not being female, but why alter servers?

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I have heard two different arguments put forth on this issue. One is that it encourages the idea of women priests. The other is that it scares boys away from altar serving by turning it into a “girly job”- which is exactly how it is in my parish, unfortunately.
 
FidesSpesCarita said:
Just a question:

Why is it not acceptable to have female alter servers?

I understand the EMHC’s not being female, but why alter servers?

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Actually women aren’t allowed in the sanctuary at all during Mass except in nuptuals and First Communion. It’s traditional but probably inspired by I Corintheans.
 
Canto said:
This might relate

Lay Eucharistic ministers not entitled to position, Archbishop Burke clarifies

catholicnewsagency.com/news/lay-eucharistic-ministers-not-entitled-to-position-archbishop-burke-clarifies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&utm_content=Google+International
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Pretty strong stuff there:
This clarification comes just a week after L’Osservatore Romano writer Lucetta Scaraffia published an article on the altar server pilgrimage to the Vatican which drew thousands of boys and girls alike. She drew some attention as she proposed that the introduction of girls into the position of serving at the altar “meant the end of every attribution of impurity to their sex … it meant a different attention to the liturgy and an approach to the faith in bringing it near to their very hearts.”
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Archbishop Burke clarified, however, that the reality of the matter is that neither the presence of girls at the altar, nor the participation of lay faithful “belong to the fundamental rights of the baptized.”
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His point here is that female servers and Eucharistic “ministers” can be allowed to serve by the local Ordinary but it is not a “Right” of the layity.
 
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