"Subdeacons do nothing at a Solemn Mass but stand by and look pretty."
Obviously, you have very little respect for the office you hold as a Sacred Minister, which by the way, a Sub-Deacon is, unless you subscribe to the "straw-subdeacon". Which by definition must be a tonsured cleric as well, in other words not sister mary sunshine & the hippie love dude.
Actually, isn't this what the majority of the people who crowd around the table do in the NOM, stand around & look pretty?
There are no ordained subdeacons, and haven't been for 30 years. The office was abolished in the early 70s, as was the ceremony of tonsure.
Okay - I do have a question - do we still have subdeacons? If not, does that mean I won't be seeing a Solemn High Mass but only a Missa Cantata?