Pardon me?
I understand the word “never”, I just disagree. Since RS allows for girls to serve, then they can serve.
I responded to your message with the preface: “I respectfully disagree”. I could have dismissed your words, like you did mine, in like un-charitable and un-Christian fashion. After all, your words deserve no more credence than your willing to ascribe to others’, including mine. Your disrespectful response was simply juvenile - I thought I was responding to an adult - my bad!
Type as much as you want. It dosen’t change the fact that your previous posting was based on nothing more than your own personal opinion and nothing more.
This thread was* never* a matter of if females are allowed to serve. They are. They was a matter of the only people that should serve are those males who might be fostering a vocation to the priesthood or diaconate…
I would NEVER vilify the Church, then or now. It is the **Crusader’s **behavior to which I am referring, not the Church. I suggest that YOU read the history of the crusades more closely.
It gets very old hearing misinformation about both the Crusades and the Inquisition. You need to read a bit of history (from reputible sources) before you regurgitate the same old legends.
Hence the attempt to exclude some mentally handicapped boys from continuing their faithfilled service at the altar.
I can tell you how it was done with my son at our parish. One Sunday Father told me that it was time for my son to start serving. He told me to send him to him before Mass the following week to start training. He repeated this to my son. My son showed up the next week, served Mass as an extra (didn’t do much besides process and recess for a couple weeks) and that was that. We have training once a year but the more experienced servers show the young ones what to do as they go along.
Sorry, not reasonable at all. There was a vocations crisis waaaaaaaay before female altar servers were allowed. Yes, I know I’m taking what you said seriously— just want to make my comment before someone takes your “suggestion” that girls are responsible for the vocations crisis as a fact.
Thanks for the post. I firmly believe that parents have an obligaiton to have their boys serve, and in the case of a Catholic school, the teachers and principals. I do not know in a parish setting what type of punishment should be meted out to the parents and boys who refuse.
Outstanding. My guess is stories like your’s were once quite common. Now they are rather rare due to the pressures applied by the sexist-feminist special interest groups…I can tell you how it was done with my son at our parish. One Sunday Father told me that it was time for my son to start serving. He told me to send him to him before Mass the following week to start training. He repeated this to my son. My son showed up the next week, served Mass as an extra (didn’t do much besides process and recess for a couple weeks) and that was that. We have training once a year but the more experienced servers show the young ones what to do as they go along.
Coincidently, the same thing happened to the same son, the same month at his Catholic school. The deacon who coordinated the school Masses told him that he needed to learn to serve and started putting him in the rotation.
As far as vocations go, I think there are boys who are not self-advancing who wouldn’t volunteer unless “pushed”. Who’s to say that good vocations wouldn’t come from boys with that temperment/personality? If boys starts seeing service at the altar as expected and normal, we wouldn’t be having these discussions.
But you offer no argument at all.
Well, the priesthood is for men only, and the whole purpouse for “altar boys” is to eventually get them thinking of entering the priesthood.
Only to those without a working knowledge of Catholic history in the USA. Black American seminarians (and a great many others) were long educated and ordained in Europe before returning to the USA as priests. I know that Fr. Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886 and served in the USA. He also served as an altar boy in the USA before departing for Rome and the seminary.