As I sit and wait, thousands of thoughts are running through my mind. Where is everyone? What if I have to do this all by myself? Will I remember my cues? That was how I felt on my first day of altar ...

Altar servers take part in a Good Friday service at a church in Gora Kalwaria, Poland, in this April 10, 2020, file photo. Being an altar server should be a “profession of faith” to the entire parish ...

Q: I am a 14-year-old boy, and growing up I learned to serve the Mass. At first I never served with girls (my old church did ...

When I signed up last year to be an altar server at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, it was easy. But two years ago, that would have been impossible for any girl. One day when I was 6 years ...

To many boys in many parishes, serving at the altar has become a “girl thing.” There’s no better time to encourage boys to change their thinking than the Jan. 31 feast of St. John Bosco, “Father and ...

When she was a young girl, Logan Crotty dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest. She had always had an insatiable desire for intimacy with God and for a place of importance within God's mission, the ...

Altar server Shaniah Chavez holds a candle as she participates in the opening procession during the Easter Vigil at St. John the Evangelist Church in Center Moriches, N.Y., April 8, 2023. (OSV News ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — For 12-year-old Greg Metcalf, being an altar server is “a guy thing.” And he and his fellow servers at St. Joseph Parish here want to keep it that way. Although other parishes in the ...

to her friends — is serving on the altar at St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception in Wilkes-Barre. Her reasons for becoming an acolyte are simple. “I feel safe here,” the Wilkes-Barre ...

When I was a young girl attending Mass with my family at St. Mary's Catholic Church in the 1960s and '70s, I don't ever remember wanting to be an altar server. So the fact that I ended up becoming one ...

Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has mandated that girls are not permitted to serve as altar servers in parishes within the Archdiocese of Colombo. “No girls should be invited to serve at the altar ...