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To: miss marmelstein

Thank you for your kind words. I’m not that young myself. But I grew up with Mass in English and females serving as altar girls, lay readers, and Eucharistic Ministers, among other duties including choir, ushers, and just about everything else short of those functions limited only for priests. It doesn’t trouble me. The Bible does not prohibit Mass said in English nor does it prohibit female participation in Church functions.


31 posted on 01/28/2015 12:08:22 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Altar service was traditionally the way boys got interested in the priesthood. Priests were much more masculine in those days, not the glad-handing, soft, joke-cracking social justice types we have now, and they were also a good role model for the boys.

It has been shown that you get more priestly vocations in parishes where the servers are boys. That’s just how it is. Girls have other vocations.


36 posted on 01/28/2015 12:28:05 PM PST by livius
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