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To: kidd
I hope you don’t think that I was lying to my entire Church,

I presume that you're female? (On the internet, nobody knows ...)

If I presume correctly, then read my previous post carefully. I did not say that you lied to anybody. I said that the folks who permitted a girl to dress up like an Altar Boy, and to play the part of one, lied to her.

Bluntly, somebody 'in charge' in the parish where you were a girl Altar Boy lied to you.

66 posted on 02/28/2011 12:44:22 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I am male.

I had valid reasons to be an Altar boy (Christ/parish involvement/duty), but I never intended to become a priest. I don’t like anyone thinking that my parents lied to me; they never had any intent to push me towards the priesthood.

When I was in training to be an Altar boy, I was never asked if it was my intent to become a priest. Nor was it ever stated that it was the first step to the priesthood. There were lots of calls for the priesthood in CCD classes, but not in altar boy training.

While becoming an altar boy may be the first step to the priesthood, I have seen nothing that indicates that it is the exclusive reason to be an altar server. As such, calling female altar servers a “lie” is excessive.

In addition, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, confirmed in 1994 that service at the altar is one of the liturgical functions that can be performed by both lay boys and girls. If you believe that the Pope is Peter’s successor and the primacy of Peter, then how can a girl altar server be a “lie” when papal-approved Canon law allows it?


73 posted on 02/28/2011 1:39:23 PM PST by kidd
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