Catholic ping!
Latin Mass parishes never struggle to finder altar boys. And that’s say something since they use so many at High Masses. My old parish often had a dozen or more at every High Mass. A Confirmation Mass would mean having 26 or so altar boys at one time. If only Novus Ordo parishes knew what they were missing!
When I saw the headline and the picture, I couldn’t help but think of the old Dr. Pepper jingle:
“I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re a Pepper
wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too?”
Nice to see such a gender-equal distribution of Servers. Amazing hos that happened all by itself. . .
/sarc
Since the priesthood is, properly and meaningfully, a male charism, the girls shouldn't be up there at all.
No needs to just cold-bloodedly shut them out. The girls can be in charge of their own strong competencies. They can be sacristans, they can be the choir, they can lead a wealth paraliturgical functions, including processions, pilgrimages and public recitations of the Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
Let's not obliterate the Tao of male and female, as is done everyplace else in this symbolically threadbare secular society.
Should be altar boys only; knock off the “Father Jerry” bit and keep to the priest’s last name - he’s not a playmate; and clip a kid around the earhole if he messes up. Worked in my kiddiehood and we never had a scandal.
I expected to see only boys.
[As of late] we are traveling several towns west of us [by train] to attend a Tridentine on Sundays.
We love it, and the pastor of the parish is the one who taught our kids long ago. A really holy inspiring priest! In fact, his current parish has eight Masses every Sunday.
I’m guessing he has no girl altar servers at any of them.