Area parish decides altar-serving is for the boys

[J.J]

I’m Catholic of the Latin rite.

Like holding hands during the Our Father, the use of altar girls was just DONE, not approved by Bishops or councils. Once it became widespread then one bishop after another folded like a house of cards rather then risk the ire of the nuns and ‘theologians’ who had major newspapers on speeddial.

Its hard to overestimate the brow beating some prelates can take from making decisions that their priest councils and activitists will detest (like telling said groups to obey Rome and stop inventing liturgical abuses out of thin air).

It’s easier (and thus most common) for them to just ignore liturgical abuses altogether, suffer the angst of otherwise obedience conservatives (who don’t have major news organizations on speeddial) and hope for the best.

For many it was just one more thing to not get worried about - a trifle to be given in to and so stave off more wrath from nuns and theologians whose chief mission in life seems to be to ‘change’ the liturgy and then the doctrine of the Church rather than learn it, understand it, and promote it as a “deposit” of faith for the salvation of the world.

Mr Joe Strong:
Be “Strong”, stand firm in what you know and believe, Do Not give in to the shifting and sometimes winds of Heresy.
Another great enemy of The Church, is “Convenience” - the prevalent/pervasive attitude that “it’s not convenient to get up and attend Divine Liturgy”; “It’s not convenient to stand for an hour during Divine Liturgy” ---- this “rot” of attitude also goes by the term. “path of least resistance”.

I like your attitude, Joe Strong; we need more Defenders of The Faith who are not afraid to “Tell it like it is/should be”.

So your not an Eastern Catholic; were you ever in the Dominican or Salvaltorian order?

XPNCTOC BOCKPEC!