Boys step up to altar, en Mass

Boston Herald ^ | March 23, 2008 | Laura Crimaldi

[A.A. Cunningham]

Bump and Ping

[sneakers]

Wow! Excellent article!

We should all be involved, but I hope to see men take their place as leaders in church and Godly leaders of their families. I would think service as an altar boy would only be a good influence towards these ends. And, of course, it is also a great encouragement for a boy to consider the priesthood.

[badpacifist]

traditional rite in growing numbers in the Boston archdiocese

Now I love the Traditional Latin rite but in Massachusetts's? So will John Kerry or Ted Kennedy or their constituents go to this beautiful Mass and then turn around and go support and give money to the abortion party? Maybe I should just have a little faith that this is a step in the right direction for the average Joe Massachusetts Catholic.

[Dr. Sivana]

Massachusetts is like Austria, western Canada and England in some ways. The bad guys are definitely the dominant element, but there are still cadres of excellent Christians and conservatives who (for the time being) must lay low. In some ways, they are more serious about raising their children than those in less egregiously “bad” areas.

[basil]

place keeper for later

[A.A. Cunningham]

Highly unlikely that the heretics at the Paulist Center, where Kerry claims he attends “mass”, would put forth the effort, or expense, to hold a Tridentine Rite Mass.

[Right Wing Assault]

A minimum of nine servers is needed to perform the highly choreographed rite, which can be traced to the sixth century and is referred to as the Tridentine Mass.

I served in the 50s and we always had four. I don't remember nine.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Low Mass only needs one. (I remember serving the 6AM “Bakers’ Mass” in Northern Minnesota. Shiver!)

[Chode]

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

[Ann Archy]

We still have HOPE in this country. THANK GOD.

[Right Wing Assault]

Low Mass only needs one.

But we did our 6 am with four all the time or Sister would not be happy. Duty included going to the rectory to wake up Fr. McCafferty if he was late. I used to ride my bike in the snow in the winter and got to be the first to crunch on the Mayflies in the spring.

[Verginius Rufus]

"Difficult Latin"? Not compared to some of the stuff you find in Caesar...

Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?

Et introibo ad altare Dei: ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi: salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.

Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

[Salvation]

BTTT! This is exciting. I am always talking to boys about being servers. I never talk to girls.

[NYer]

At Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Newton, Father Charles Higgins, above, speaks to several altar boys.

[Petronski]

I wish you had requested Catholic Caucus status for this thread.

[Petronski]

I wish you had requested Catholic Caucus status for this thread.

[Pyro7480]

This is in the News Forum, so it can’t have it.

[Petronski]

Well, then I would have posted it somewhere else.

Oh well.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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