Being An Altar Server

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There must be a regular parish closer to your home that you could be an alter server for that has regular week day masses and 4 or 5 masses on weekends. Are you old enough to drive yet? I would think that your family would be proud to have you serving!!! My 27 year old attorney daughter loved the years she served - even at her university. I hope you find a way to do this special service. 👍
 
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There must be a regular parish closer to your home that you could be an alter server for that has regular week day masses and 4 or 5 masses on weekends. Are you old enough to drive yet? I would think that your family would be proud to have you serving!!! My 27 year old attorney daughter loved the years she served - even at her university. I hope you find a way to do this special service. 👍
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Not really. We never go to our local parish, as it is not very traditional. The parish we go to is in a town twenty-five miles away, and it appears to have many altar servers, so I’m not sure they would accept me as an altar server. However, if I was the Priest at the parish we go to, I would fire all of the altar servers. From wearing sunglasses, completely paying no attention to the Mass, and simply acting like they would be more ecstatic about going to their hanging, they simply do not act like they know what they’re witnessing and are a part of. They give altar servers a horrible name, and if I was the Priest I would tell them to be reverent, or be gone.
 
I’m sorry that you are so disillusioned with the alter servers at your church. Maybe if you joined them you could be an example for the others and ignite change through service. I cannot imagine a reason they would not accept you. I think most priests are humble people who want their flock to be active in their parish life. Most teenagers are more reverent than they want others to know - they wear their “aloofness” as a mask of protection. :rolleyes:
 
Etamin said:
Becoming a regular altar server is a step in the right direction when one feels called to the priesthood. One could even say it is part of the calling.

Remember that priests are encouraged to celebrate mass daily, so it would be good habit to serve often, as the Sacrifice of the Mass is at the center of the priest’s vocational duties. Also, the viewpoint given to a server is different and special. The server in a sense becomes an “extension” of the priest’s hands (eg. handling the cruets of water and wine) and at good parishes one even wears clerical garb, in the black cassock and white surplice.

This is why I get nervous about too many girl servers. :o
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The clerical garb, black cassock and white surplus’s are nowhere to be found in my diocese. Sad, but true. We just wear a plain white robe with a belt around it.
 
The plain white robe and rope belt is what the servers wear at our parish also as well as almost any other parish I’ve attended in our area. At the cathedral in downtown Sacramento where there are several seminarians serving, they wear the white and red. This situation with what alter servers wear almost smacks of 8th grade girls deciding on which Catholic High School to attend based on the uniforms…😉
 
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The clerical garb, black cassock and white surplus’s are nowhere to be found in my diocese. Sad, but true. We just wear a plain white robe with a belt around it.
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An alb maybe? It’s to some extent equivalent to a surplice, and used to be worn over a cassock (some still are.) But often what you see these days is called a “cassock-alb” and is not meant to have cassock underneath. Strictly speaking, a cassock is street clothes - the vestments are what you put over them. So there is a logic to having an alb with regular street clothes underneath rather than a cassock and street clothes. It can all get rather bulky, and it is more expensive and can mean more cleaning.

IMO the cassock and surplice is a lot sharper looking, but it isn’t really more proper.
 
ATeutonicKnight said:
it’s about the fact that Jesus chose only men to be his disciples, and this was written in stone with the Early Church Fathers, who spoke many times about this, and always had the same answer: It cannot be done.
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I think you mean He chose men to be His apostles.
Women were definitely amongst His disciples.

Remember, words do matter. 👍
 
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