[Dajjal]

Cooties bump

[MudPuppy]

Praise God that Arlington Diocese hasn't buckled to the pressure. We have Altar BOYS only and don't seem to have a problem getting them to serve.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

This is a joke, right? you really want to know why altar boys aren't serving?

[The_Reader_David]

Well, in the East, we still remember the old canons: women are not allowed in the altar unless they be virgins over the age of 40 or widows over the age of 60.

We still have lots of altar boys. At the parish I attended when visiting Philadelphia two summers ago, looking in the nave one would think that the families of the parish bore daughters only, until the Great Entrance, when the line of altar servers bearing torches, processional cross, censer, about a dozen Holy Icons and liturgical fans with the priest and deacon carrying the elements for the Holy Mysteries in the midst stretched most of the way around the nave. Even at the little mission where I usually serve, it's a rare liturgy where we can't manage four, and at the larger parishes I occasionally serve at (I am a subdeacon of the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church), we usually manage more than the ideal six (two torches, cross, censer, two liturgical fans).

[Loyalist]

I've explained this same argument to people before who wonder about why I don't believe girls should serve at the altar.

I've found that many men agree with this explanantion, and those who don't, at least understand the underlying logic.

And most women not only disagree vehemently, but also can't seem to fathom the reasoning of an arguement they disagree with, and get quite emotionally upset about it.

[WriteOn]

Yup. I think this needs to get fixed. Once the girls start serving the boys see it as a fem role.

[RobbyS]

This is going all across American society. Now the majority of students in college are female. Men won't compete for female roles.

[TradicalRC]

I agree, the altar girl is yet another modernist mistake done more from feminist principles than Christian ones. Christ chose his own "old boy network" and I'm sure He had his reasons. Funny, no one seemed to question them for the better part of two millenia but I guess we've gotten progressivism. Now, if we could have genuflection at receiving the Holy Sacrament we might actually restore some of that reverence that seems to have withered on the vine of VaticanII. BTW, Christ never struck me as in any way being
"effeminate" so why should we Christian men be?