Female Servers?

I can't help feeling that having girls or women serving, apart from being a significant break with tradition, is a first step towards women clergy, 'stealth priestesses'. The function of a server is …More
I can't help feeling that having girls or women serving, apart from being a significant break with tradition, is a first step towards women clergy, 'stealth priestesses'. The function of a server is obviously to assist the priest, a good server will ensure the priest follows the rubrics correctly and enable the priest to be recollected, and if necessary remind him if he forgets anything, like the consecration or the final blessing. No priest should be trusted to go the altar alone. Ideally the server and especially the Master of Ceremonies should have thorough understanding not just of rubrics but of the liturgy itself.
In the Ordinary Form there is no restriction on the number of servers, and although the server doesn't answer on behalf of the congregation, his role is to assist the priest but also to lead the congregation in prayer. He should at least be an example of prayerful deportment and reverence. He should have a deep prayer life and be devout, otherwise what he does is a sham …More
Prof. Leonard Wessell
When I can stomach it I go to a local parish here in Germany. It is a beautifuly neo-Gothic building that could hold several hundred people and did 50 years ago. Now, it is limited to 30 to 50 communicants and everything is "modern". There are NO male servers, not a one. Usually a young lady of, say, 12 or 13 years of age plus her younger sister of 6 or 7 years of age do the serving. The young girl …More
When I can stomach it I go to a local parish here in Germany. It is a beautifuly neo-Gothic building that could hold several hundred people and did 50 years ago. Now, it is limited to 30 to 50 communicants and everything is "modern". There are NO male servers, not a one. Usually a young lady of, say, 12 or 13 years of age plus her younger sister of 6 or 7 years of age do the serving. The young girl looks very sincere. I cannot imagine that she wants to go through the ranks for years and years, so to speak, and than be excluded from the priesthood. My own personal feeling is: Should she not be allowed to become a priest, then the current Church policies are cruel and exploitative of sincere young ladies. Without them, there might be mighty few servers. I should not be MISunderstood. I support whole heartly male and only male preists. Indeed, I would have crisis of faith should the Church "change" (in a non Cardinal Newman sense). That, however, does not alter my opinion that the sincere young lady in my parish will be abused pychologically when she is refused acceptance to the priesthood and that she will, with all personal justice, fight to alter the Church!
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G.Taylor
Female alter "servers" are a non-sense, they should be told to get back in the pews with the rest of us. They are nothing but a distraction.
All the pc stuff is just that - political correctness gone mad.
They have been pushed by the homosexual clergy and accepted by the false humility of the rest.
Priests have the right to refuse, but they are so spineless so go along with the non-sense.
lukedaniel
The Saints would have died from witnessing the novus ordo messes; but not before exorcising the church.