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Our bishop only allows boys to serve. Vocations to the priesthood often begin with altar service.

Catholic ping!

2 posted on 01/09/2016 3:13:47 PM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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I was expecting this article to say that the successful parish had stopped putting girls on the altar. Oh, well....


17 posted on 01/09/2016 5:31:40 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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Our bishop only allows boys to serve. Vocations to the priesthood often begin with altar service.
Catholic ping!

I was thinking along those lines myself. The girls are fine but I don't think that being altar servers gives THEM the idea to be nuns.
Boys, becoming priests, have the authority to say the words that allow God to change the bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our good Lord.
THAT is the uniqueness of boys' possible future. Not girls. Sorry.

21 posted on 01/09/2016 6:13:27 PM PST by cloudmountain
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