Tales from the Sacristy: Gaffs and Blunders
Altar Boys and Girls make tons of the mistakes. The secret is to not let anyone know that this happens by making your mistakes small and not so huge that…
Tales from the Sacristy: LOL
A visiting priest once forewarned a group of us altar boys: “If I see any of you laughing on the altar, I will throw you off of the altar and…
Altar Boy Humor: Tales from the Sacristy #1
So I’ll share some of the more funny experiences I’ve had as an altar server. Some happened at mass itself and others were in preparation for mass and others even…
Altar Girls and the Priesthood Shortage
Dedicating this week’s post to discussions on altar servers has proved to open the floodgates. As the first post to the first discussion claims “Altar girls are an abomination and…
A Server’s Prayer
I was talking with a parent recently about altar servers and recalled that before I served mass as a young man we had posted in the sacristy a prayer that…