Huh? You say that altar service provides a recruiting ground for priests, I say it doesn't because most men entering seminaries enter later, and you say "I prove your point"?
Actually, I disprove your point.
They were also probably thinking that their ideas would receive a fair hearing.
This "proposal" is dead on arrival. It has nothing to do with "reverence," and more to do with rolling back "innovations" that some folks at the Vatican don't like. Reverence has nothing to do with manner of reception of the Eucharist.
Not at all. As you point out, many seminarians are only finding their way to the priesthood later in life. In the days when the acolytate was the primary recruiting ground for the seminary, young men found a quicker, more direct path - like the minor seminary.
It has nothing to do with "reverence," and more to do with rolling back "innovations" that some folks at the Vatican don't like.
It has everything in the world to do with reverence. If one believes that the Eucharist is the Real Presence of Christ's Body and Blood, then one wants to make sure as few opportunities as possible exist for it to be profaned.
Having hundreds of people handle the Eucharist instead of one multiplies the chances of profanation.
Reverence has nothing to do with manner of reception of the Eucharist.
It has absolutely everything to do with it. One's attitude shows through one's actions.
You are entitled to any benighted opinion you wish to hold.
BTW, I wish you'd stop slandering the Curia for "trial-ballooning" this document. Reuters reports that the document was leaked by the PoofterLiturgyWonks to stir up opposition from the dedicated modernists.
And judging from your reaction, the Poofters got what they wanted, Deacon.