What is the dress code for altar boy at your parish?

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Someone can me clearly explain what is the problem if an altar girl (or an altar boy) wears flip-flops where the footwear is allowed.
Our altar boys cannot wear any footwear.
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The real problem [edited] is the fact that you are dressing girls in clerical garb. Does your church make the boys dress like nuns?

Cassocks and surplices are clerical garb. Your church should invest in ALBs so the girls can avoid dressing in Male specific clothing.

I wonder what the priestly vocation rate is for this church. I wonder if it pales in comparison to the diocese of Lincoln, NE where altar girls are not allowed.
 
I don’t see a great difference between flip-flops and other sandals worn without socks.
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sandals without socks seem part of the altar boy uniform. It seems to me that it is inspired in Franciscan clothing.
Why the flip-flops worn by the altar girls in the first photo should be judged indecent?

Perhaps this is a little matter of different cultural view.
 
The parish I go to requires Acolytes (Male) to wear black pants (formal) and black shoes, and for the liturgy they usually wear black cassock and square yoke surplice (plain). It looks nice when everybody in this case is uniformed, i believed it is more orderly and reverent…

God Bless
 
CFI said:
I don’t see a great difference between flip-flops and other sandals worn without socks.
[edited]sandals without socks seem part of the altar boy uniform. It seems to me that it is inspired in Franciscan clothing.
Why the flip-flops worn by the altar girls in the first photo should be judged indecent?

Perhaps this is a little matter of different cultural view.
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I don’t see a great difference too.
 
Regarding the pictures of the children in flip flops. I don’t think we should be posting pictures of other people’s children and discussing them on this forum. Besides the safety issue, if I were a Catholic parent who came this forum for the first time, I would be :mad: if I stumbled upon a thread with a large picture of my child splashed across it and strangers were discussing her footwear.

Mods - I really think those pictures of the children should be removed to respect their privacy.
 
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Regarding the pictures of the children in flip flops. I don’t think we should be posting pictures of other people’s children and discussing them on this forum. Besides the safety issue, if I were a Catholic parent who came this forum for the first time, I would be :mad: if I stumbled upon a thread with a large picture of my child splashed across it and strangers were discussing her footwear.

Mods - I really think those pictures of the children should be removed to respect their privacy.
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I agree. People should not be posting pictures of children on this board without permission.
 
When I was an altar-boy at a Franciscan parish, we all wore proper Saltwater sandals, as did the Father. I had two pairs, so I would only wear good sandals for Mass. When I stopped being an altar-boy at 15, my mother kept me in a modest church uniform of a white shirt, blue shorts/trousers and sandals for Mass as a sign of humility (blue and white being Our Lady’s colours). I do not see what the criticism is of sandals.
 
At my actual parish (ordinary form) the servers wear albs, excepting the master of ceremonies, who wears a cassock and surplice. At the church where I usually attend Mass (extraordinary form) the servers all wear cassocks and surplices.
 
water said:
I went to another parish to attend the feast day, and saw that the altar-“girl” was wearing flip-flop. This will never happen at my parish. I did send an email to the pastor about this though.

I thought it wasn’t appropriate and sent an email to the pastor about this matter. Am I too picky about this?
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I’d say to mind your own business.

You’re not the parish priest, who sets the standards, and you’re not this girl’s parent.
 
In our parish, we have no young people to serve Mass. Y’all are lucky to have something to argue about.

Betsy
 
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