[Clemenza]

What do you have against female altar servers? I'm a guy, but it aint like altar servers are "future priests." Most former altar boys I know (hello dad!) did not enter the priesthood. My dad told me that he and his friends were often pressured by the creepy priests to join "youth seminaries" but that they for the most part refused.

BTW: Latin is the gutter language of the Roman Empire. Bring back Aramaic, and maybe I will start attending again.

[NYer]

Bring back Aramaic, and maybe I will start attending again.

Welcome to the Maronite Catholic Church where the Consecration is in Aramaic, using the words and language of Christ at the Last Supper. Communion is ONLY distributed by the priest. It is by intinction (the priest dips the consecrated host into the Precious Blood) and is ONLY received on the tongue. The priest administers communion with the words: "Receive the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin and eternal salvation".

Aramaic Consecration

Byow mo how daq dom ha sho dee leh
ma' bed hy eh
nsa bel lah mo be dow qa dee sho to.
Ou ba rekh
ou qa desh
waq so
ou ya bel tal mee dow kad o mar:
Sab a khool meh neh kul khoon:
Ho no den ee tow faghro deel
day lo fy koun wah lof sagee hey
meh teq seh ou meh tee heb
lhoo so yo dhow beh was ha yeh dal 'o lam
'ol meen.

English Translation

On the day before his life-giving passion,
Jesus took bread in his holy hands.
He blessed,
sanctified,
broke,
and gave it to his disciples, saying:
Take and eat it, all of you:
This is my body
which is broken and delivered for you
and for many,
for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

[Pio]

Pope John Paul II has described altar servers as a "garden for vocations." Cardinal Arinze stressed this again when asked by Raymond Arroyo on World Over Live. he said, if the Priest is a good Priest then he will serve as a model as will a good policeman, a good teacher, a good businessman...it stands to reasonthat if a priest a good priest there will be boys who will come along, hearing God's call.

Conversely, he intoned, if a priest is not generating vocations, he most certainly must be a bad one.

The priests you had were mostly bad ones, sounds like. If as boys, you perceived them as creepy, then I suspect your perception was a good one...children can be very good at detecting evil...your parents did well with you.

In the end it stands to reason that if you flood the priesthood with homosexuals...then young boys will want nothing to do with the priesthood...this is by design and part of a deliberate plan.

So it is true...in a highly homosexualized priesthood , sending up girls is a smart manuever, they will be very safe. What do I have against girl servers? There is no history of girl servers...not in 1960 years of the Catholic Church. Then just recently , American Bishops started using them...it was done to start planting the seeds of a female priesthood. Many Catholic females are calling for a female priesthood . They have been admitted to seminaries as lay students to rub elbows with the priests-in-training. A Boston College educated lawyer who works for the Bishop of Worcester Mass. came to my parish mouthing off about female ordination. This BITCH is ready to grab a colar for herself....she'll get it sooner or later, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis notwithstanding.

[Pio]

BTW: Latin is the gutter language of the Roman Empire.

Latin is a lovely language it is THE language of the Church. It is excellent in its precision, having avoided the machinations of modern lingiusts who have introduced ambiguity & wordiness into it. I refer you to the Catechism of the Catholic Church which speaks lovingly of Latin. I studied it for two years in high school and will encourage my children to do so....but such intellectual endeavors may indeed be wasted on you.

[Puddleglum]

What do you have against female altar servers? I'm a guy, but it aint like altar servers are "future priests."

When I was an altar boy they were also called "acolytes," which sort of implied future priesthood as at least a possibility. I don't like the idea of altar girls, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I lose more sleep over wierd music directors - all schisms begin in the music department!