[VermiciousKnid]

My mother's hair is shoulder-length, ridiculously thick, and a stunning shade of silver.

Seriously, though, I hear you about the women -- even girls; there are MANY more altar girls than boys. (I've always maintained that the boys stopped doing it partially because they now have to share what was once an exclusive honor.) When I was a child, we girls had the Sodality and the boys had Altar Boys. Now there is no more Sodality, and there are almost no boys who are willing to serve Mass. Too bad, because back in the old days, it worked out just fine. I guess they just couldn't let sleeping dogs lie.

Meanwhile, I do my part in the Rosary Altar Society as the resident embroiderer. I use this opportunity to try to make our Brady Bunch-paneled-TV room church (YICK!) a little more palatable. FWIW, I get great responses for my VERY traditional designs.

Regards,

[Desdemona]

No more Sodality? You've got to be kidding. EVERY parish here has a healthy Sodality. Woman give up an evening to chat without their husbands around? Yeah, right. (that's why I never joined. No single guys)

I've always wondered how many altar girls serve because THEY want to rather than their mothers wanting them to. In my old parish, the boys rarely showed up when it was an exclusive honor. Many a Mass Father would walk down the isle with only a lector. By the gospel, there was usually a full compliment as parents would send their boys up.

Now those amorphous, icky albs...they're just not classy.