That was how I felt on my first day of altar serving at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church. I was so nervous that day for almost no reason, and little did I know I would fall in love with being ...

Holy Family prohibits girls from serving at the altar,” features an interview with Father Joseph McLagan, a priest new to the school who decided girls would no longer be allowed to serve at the ...

A Girl Serving With Pride At the Altar. February 1, 2008. When I signed up last year to be an altar server at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, it was easy.

Glenda Lopez smiles as she and other altar servers wait for the start of Mass at the international border in Nogales, Arizona, Oct. 23, 2016.

While Washington’s archdiocese allowed female altar servers almost right away, Arlington’s decision not to caused more open debate than when Loverde approved female altar servers in 2006.

White, who was born with Down syndrome, has been an altar server for 25 years, receiving the calling after making his first communion, and serving at St. Stephen’s Parish in Attleboro before ...

The Altar server also provides practical leadership for the congregation as to when to sit, stand and kneel. Even the folded hands, pointed upward are meant to direct attention upward to God. The ...

TOP ALTER SERVER: With nine years of service, Sydney Andras, center, is this year's outstanding altar server for St. Francis Xavier parish. With her are Father Joe Palermo, left, and Father Thien ...