Where did you get the idea that they aren’t?Where are your good, strong Catholic men in all these ministries? Shouldn’t your boys be involved in this too?
Good to hear it, Net - I’m just teasing ya with that one. Our parish…let’s see…we don’t have much in the way of social action protests. We might have had a meeting about the ice cream social that week. Maybe they took up a 2nd collection on Sunday for the poor. And we have this traveling Virgin statue that some people pray with. I sure do wish our old-timers would be more willing to open up the parish to younger parishioners and attempt to form a sense of community.
Honestly, the seniors will always be the seniors, When our parish was very small, one group ruled the roost.
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together with communion in the hand and the TLM/NO. See here:Regardless of whether the cause and effect you have seen is really cause and effect and not coinicidence, there’s an easy fix: Parents, preferably fathers, instruct their sons to volunteer as altar boys. It worked with my son.
This topic has probably been discussed in the past but I am new to the forum so I would like to discuss this topic. Why did the Vatican allow Alter Girls? I have been told that Pope John Paul II caved into pressure from feminist groups and went along with this only in times that when no other boys were around to serve? Any truth to this and if not can one site a source. Of course we all know that this isn’t the case and can attend Mass where the only Man on the alter is the Priest, while boys sit in the pews. I believe that this has had a very negative effect on Vocations and has only fueled the fire of why women can’t be priest. So now that I have opened the can of worms I would be interested to hear from both sides. If you think it is good to have alter girls let me know why. If you don’t think this is good I would also like to know why.
The Catholic paper, and my pastor said it was the reason.
For some it works. For others, getting boys to do something that they’ll end up being the butt of jokes in the schoolyard, doesn’t.
Really? Try to have your son ride a girls bike to school everyday.
Alter is a common mistake here.
I can tell you that my experience of being a short girl and riding a boys bike is bad too.Really? Try to have your son ride a girls bike to school everyday.
Does your parish allow Altar Girls, and if so how many do you have?
I agree with your post. My sons served until the Sunday before they went away to college. They are quite tall the tallest 6 5.
NO Altar Girls.
And in every thread on this subject, I never see any actual proof for this assertion. It’s all just anecdote.
And in every thread on this subject, I never see any actual proof for this assertion. It’s all just anecdote.
Face it: The problems with the Church now and always have been divided into two large categories. First, there are corrupt, incompetent, lazy priests causing scandal which weakens the Church’s moral authority. Second, there are parents following the example of those priests.
So, rather than sit around whining about how evil altar girls are because boys think girl-things are icky, or that boys who altar serve might get made fun of (O! The humanity!), or that there is a really loud but numerically insignificant group who think altar girls are priestesses in training, I prefer to be a bit more constructive.
Thus, I get my own house in order by the grace of God. I humbly suggest everyone else do the same thing.
– Mark L. Chance.
