Resources Needed--Altar boys at wedding

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My older two sons (ages 15 and 10–youngest son hasn’t made First Communion yet, so he’s not allowed to serve until after FHC) serve as altarboys in our parish, and are* de facto* the altarboys for weddings. They’ve just been informed that the wedding they’ll be serving in two weeks is going to be w/ the Tridentine Mass.

Oldest son has served twice at a regular Sunday Mass (Tridentine, that is–he serves every week), but never a Latin wedding. So–any resources as to what the altarboy duties are (and responses so I can work on pronunciation ahead of time–oldest is learning Latin, but he’s only a few weeks into his first year of study)–it’d be a huge help.
 
My sons have been trained for the NO Mass, and oldest son learned to serve Tridentine pretty much on the fly (paired w/ a more experienced a/ Tridentine Mass altar server [more like a man than a boy, so I’m hesitant to say altarboy]). Rehearsals have not included altarboys in the past, don’t expect them to be called to rehearse.
 
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My sons have been trained for the NO Mass, and oldest son learned to serve Tridentine pretty much on the fly (paired w/ a more experienced a/ Tridentine Mass altar server [more like a man than a boy, so I’m hesitant to say altarboy]). Rehearsals have not included altarboys in the past, don’t expect them to be called to rehearse.
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Well as a former altar boy, this is how my parish handled high services: at times the altar boys were trained specifically for these services, other times they were simply told what to do short before the Holy Mass.

I think it would be best to ask the priest or the sacristan about the issue or the leader of the altar boys if there is one and then ask for an appointment to go through things.

God bless
 
The traditional Latin wedding mass is really just a normal traditional Latin mass with a few additions. If your boys can serve a traditional Latin mass, they should be OK with serving at a wedding mass as well. You can purchase a booklet from Ecclesia Dei that contains the prayers and ceremonies for the traditional Latin wedding mass, and may be a help for the boys to prepare. I would call Ecclesia Dei to order the book - the info is here: ecclesiadei.org/Order%20Form.htm

With regard to serving mass in general, there are some books available to train altar boys, for example : amazon.com/How-Serve-Low-Mass-Benediction/dp/093595242X

Here is a link to a good online source for altar serving instructions: sanctamissa.org/en/serving/
The “How to Serve Low Mass” section has a Latin pronunciation guide at the end.

Hope this helps!
 
That is helpful. Oldest son has served the Latin Mass, middle son hasn’t–so they’re both going to the Latin Mass today (in addition to our regular 9am Mass). Found a website w/ downloadable audio files with a slow (syllable-by-syllable) and fast (normal speech speed) for all the altar boy responses in the Mass (we’re going for a slightly faster than slow, but it’s still slower than the “fast” recording–oldest has only studied two declensions + the regular -are verbs so far, so this is considerably more advanced than where he is right now).
 
As a bit of an update–boys went to the Latin Mass last Sunday, and I’ve got a printout of the altar boy responses + audio downloads, so we’re going over that and I may just make up a little booklet for this.

The plan is that they’ll be going a half hour earlier than their usual arrival time to go over things, but I’m sure they’ll both be fine.

This will make my sons the only boys in the parish who serve both EF and OF.

Oldest son told me that some woman he didn’t know at the Latin Mass told him afterwards that he will be a wonderful priest. Oldest son admitted to me that he thinks God is calling him but he says he really didn’t want to be called because he “really likes girls!” but–everytime he tries to run away (figuratively), something like this unknown woman telling him he’ll be a wonderful priest happens. So pray for him, because I’ve personally thought he had that vocation for years and trying to hold back from doing anything that would look like “pushing”.
 
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