Perhaps if the church showed the True Jesus and not some turn the cheek pajama boy...too much to ask.
a few years ago they started with the female lectors, altar girls, whatever....men didn’t volunteer because there were enough bodies to fill the need. Boys felt intimidated by the altar girls and I think vocations have suffered as a result....they should return to males ASAP.
Men have wives, mothers, daughters and female co workers and sometimes bosses all of whom are constantly telling them how to act and what to do. They certainly don’t need to be feminized at their place of worship. Get the women out of acting as alter girls. that is a huge problem. Boys are not interested in sharing one more thing with girls. They already have to defer to their feelings and nonsense 24/7 and get their masculinity degraded regularly.
I read recently to giver men tasks to do.
So I have adopted this theory and asked one elderly gentleman to light the candles before daily Mass. He loves it.
Always think about this verse:
Galatians 6:28-29.
When the “spirit” of VII was all the rage many predicted that the rush to appoint women to the new ministries created would push men out of the church. Religion becomes a women’s thing and the men stay home. The wife takes care of that stuff. The Protestant denominations that have put women in leadership have seen the same effect. When girls were allowed to be altar boys they soon took over the job almost entirely in many parishes because boys didn’t want to do that any more, any more than they wanted to go to those ballroom dancing classes. Now girls flock to the position while the boys have to be pushed. If women are not church leaders and ministers they will not leave the Church. Women carry the Christianity gene for the race. It has been so since Acts.
I stopped going to church altogether. It is completely feminized and I have better things to do than listen to some drivel that only appeals to women. From what I have seen recently, men usually only go to avoid an argument with their wife.
I'm not saying the life of a priest is easy, but I would have nothing to relate to him, that would motivate me to follow his leadership...
Show me a man who has the done the things I have done in my life and done them better, you have my attention...