{"id":39132,"date":"2017-10-25T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=39132"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:51:16","slug":"warning-girl-altar-servers-may-cause-bad-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/warning-girl-altar-servers-may-cause-bad-liturgy\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Girl Altar Servers May Cause Bad Liturgy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I distinctly recall, some twenty-five years ago, crouching on my parents\u2019 living room floor, my arms slung over a blue velveteen armchair, sobbing.\u00a0 My sobs, however, weren\u2019t related to the more mundane matters of middle school drama.\u00a0 \u201cWhat if I can\u2019t remember all the responses I\u2019m supposed to make during Mass!?\u201d I gasped between sniffles.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago this fall (1992 for those of you who are counting), I was among the first girls in my Roman Catholic gradeschool to be offered the opportunity to be trained as an altar server.\u00a0 Our parish in southern Indiana, it turns out, had actually anticipated the formal recognition of girl altar servers, which came in April of 1994 from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, by two years.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archindy.org\/criterion\/local\/series\/serving\/1.html\">Archdiocese of Indianapolis<\/a> formally welcomed girls as altar servers a few months after the CDWDS recognition with new norms for the Archdiocese.\u00a0 Our parish&#8217;s 1992 training session joined us with a number of Roman Catholic parishes throughout the United States which had been allowing girls to serve <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/1994-04-14\/news\/mn-45798_1_altar-girls\">since the mid-1980\u2019s<\/a> (following the 1983 <em>Code of Canon Law<\/em>, which did not expressly forbid girls from serving).<\/p>\n<p>Now, my rather inauspicious beginning, replete with tears and self-doubt, might suggest that a boy (who would not have cried, of course) could have handled the pressure of becoming an altar server with more aplomb.\u00a0 Yet, amidst all the other altar servers in my class, only I and one other boy remained a dedicated altar server through our senior year of high school.\u00a0 And it was not the boy in my class who won the \u201cserver of the year\u201d award in eighth grade!\u00a0 Serving, for me, was more than a good way to gain \u201cservice points\u201d for confirmation, get out of class during the day, or even make $5 for serving a funeral.\u00a0 I loved being an altar server, and I kept doing it, because I loved\u2026serving.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/section_feature_large\/public\/blog-images\/Altar%20girls%20Claretian%20photo_Jon%20Lowenstein.jpg?itok=s-LjORlx\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Serving at Mass was the first way I began to learn how to love the Church through my work.\u00a0 It was also the first way in which I learned \u201cliturgical style\u201d\u2014how to move without being obtrusive, how to adopt appropriate postures, and how to be attentive to (and solve) liturgical mishaps as they arose (e.g., a bad incense hand-off, or a missing cruet).\u00a0 Being a server brought me <em>inside <\/em>the Mass, in a way I\u2019d never experienced as a parishioner in the pews.\u00a0 Altar serving was ministry, Martha-style\u2014and I rejoiced in doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as many of us have experienced, the phenomenon of girls taking on the role of \u201caltar server\u201d has been, and perhaps has increasingly become, a point of contention.\u00a0 Even when Indianapolis\u2019 Archbishop Daniel Buechlein first reflected positively upon girls becoming altar servers in the Archdiocese, he was careful to explain that \u201cServers represent the worshipping assembly at the altar in a role that is distinctive from that of ordained ministers\u201d (\u201cSeeking the Face of the Lord,\u201d <em>The Criterion,<\/em> April 22, 1994).\u00a0 There was, and has been, historic concern that allowing girls to be altar servers might become a slippery slope toward female ordination in the Roman Catholic tradition.<\/p>\n<p>On this note, a friend sent me an article a couple of years ago on just this issue; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/S-F-Catholic-Church-priest-bans-girls-as-altar-6041400.php\">parish pastor in San Francisco, CA<\/a> had recently released an \u201cofficial statement\u201d on banning girls from altar serving.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/richmondsfblog.com\/2015\/01\/26\/new-priest-at-star-of-the-sea-church-bans-girls-from-being-altar-servers\/\">original article<\/a> my friend sent is no longer to be found\u2014but I happily discovered a favorite clip I\u2019d excerpted.\u00a0 The pastor wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the risk of generalizing, I suspect young men serving with young women might just distract them from the sacrifice of the Mass, and perhaps even from a priestly vocation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from simply being distracting, girls might prevent boys from serving <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.fdncms.com\/sfweekly\/imager\/catholic-church-defends-move-to-ban-girls\/u\/blog\/3360657\/4985133.png?cb=1454778921\" alt=\"4985133.png\" \/>because \u201cyoung boys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/blog\/201501\/battle-over-altar-girls-tale-two-bishops-29668\">don\u2019t want to do things<\/a> [like serving] with girls,\u201d or, even worse, because girls are <em>better <\/em>at serving, they might \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/articles\/201501\/why-church-needs-girl-altar-servers-29747\">intimidate<\/a>\u201d the boys and prevent boys from serving at all!<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I believe that arguments regarding &#8220;distraction&#8221; or &#8220;intimidation&#8221; are surpassed by far greater problems.\u00a0 What happens when women are involved with liturgy?\u00a0 According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2015\/girls-should-not-be-altar-servers\">2015 article<\/a> which appeared in <em>Crisis<\/em>, when females are involved with liturgy, we get <em>bad <\/em>liturgy.\u00a0 As the author explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When men are in charge of liturgy, they generally favor austerity, solemnity and reverence. They are far more likely to have &#8216;high&#8217; liturgical sensibilities. When women claim a more central role, we frequently see a slide into lower and more culturally idiosyncratic practices. It generally starts with campy banners and popular-style hymnody, but may end with synthesizers and scantily-clad liturgical dancers. These liturgies are not beautiful or uplifting. They\u2019re more like a never-ending hug from a grasping, obsequious aunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I, too, have bad memories of felt-and-burlap banners.\u00a0 But I am distressed by the gender binary which is presented by this contrast of women\u2019s approach to liturgical style and men\u2019s approach.\u00a0 Is there not neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, in Christ?\u00a0 Is not altar serving a ministry, specifically, for the lay faithful?\u00a0 Who are we to say that half of the lay faithful (e.g., the female half) has bad liturgical taste?\u00a0 Or, even more painfully, that young girls exist as mere distractions to building up calls for vocations among our young boys?<\/p>\n<p>I am perhaps contemplating the role of girls in parish ministry because I am expecting my first baby, my daughter, to arrive any day now.\u00a0 I am wondering what her response to the Church\u2019s call to missionary discipleship will be\u2014and if she will spend any time sobbing in our living room, wondering if she might be good enough for service.\u00a0 I am hopeful that my husband and I can encourage her to do good work for the house of God\u2014and that being a lay female does not prevent her from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when women are involved with liturgy?  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Harmon, Ph.D., is Project Director for the Obsculta Preaching Initiative at Saint John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. \u202fA Roman Catholic pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian, Harmon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame\u2019s liturgical studies program.\u202f She has contributed over a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of both liturgical studies and American Catholicism.\u202f She is the author of\u202f There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959\u202f(Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013) and\u202fMary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource\u202f (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2023). She edits the blog, Pray Tell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/kharmon\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Altar-Girls.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39138,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39132\/revisions\/39138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}