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OK, hon, I\u2019m going to step on a few toes here, so if you\u2019re not wearing your work boots you better watch out.<\/p>\n
I was visiting some friends named Cindy and Bob for the weekend and we go to Mass on Sunday and I\u2019m not real happy about what I see. First, we pull up in the parking lot and I\u2019m saying, \u201cWhat is that building there? It looks like a big cow flop made out of concrete you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMantilla!\u201d says Bob. \u201cThat\u2019s the church!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mean a Catholic Church?\u201d I\u2019m asking. I\u2019m looking over at their kids, Jimmy and Mitch and Sally. They\u2019re all giggling at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d OK, hon. I don\u2019t say nothing, but when we go in it\u2019s all soft lights and carpet and these men who are bald, but with long hair and big bellies are playing guitars and singing into microphones. I think they are maybe singing something about walking on a beach with Jesus.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made a mistake.\u201d I say to my friend, \u201cthis is a nightclub but in the daytime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now they are laughing at me. \u201cNo Mantilla, this is our church. We are getting ready for Mass now.\u201d But nobody is kneeling down or anything. They\u2019re just sitting around talking to each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hungry.\u201d I whispered to Sally. \u201cMaybe somebody will come around soon with some cotton candy or a hot dog or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
Then the doors open and these girls come walking in wearing those white cassock albs. \u00a0You know at first I think they were maybe late for Mass and they were still wearing their nightdress, but no, they are the altar servers. \u201cWhere are the boys?\u201d I\u2019m asking Cindy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t have boy altar servers anymore\u201d Cindy says. \u201cThey all quit when the let the girls in.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m poking Jimmy in the ribs, \u201cHey Jimmy why don\u2019t you and Mitch be altar servers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNah,\u201d says Jimmy, \u201cThat\u2019s girly stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
So these girls come marching up and one of them is skinny and little and is wearing a ponytail. She\u2019s real cute, but the cassock alb isn\u2019t doing her any favors. It\u2019s way too big and she\u2019s trying not to fall over it. Then a big girl is carrying the cross and she is\u00a0wearing dangling earrings, and she\u2019s maybe too pudgy you know? She\u2019s wearing bright green sneakers, and the cassock alb doesn\u2019t help. Then the other one is maybe seventeen and she\u2019s very good looking and she has her alb hitched up so you can see she has pretty nice legs, and she\u2019s wearing some nice high heeled shoes with her toes sticking out and with sparkles on. I can see Bob is leaning over to get a better look, and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s thinking much about Jesus.<\/p>\n
So what is this with the altar girls? I can tell you hon, I think it\u2019s a mistake. You know, whatever they look like, you\u2019re wondering about their clothes and make up and not thinking about Jesus. I send an email later to Monsignor Quixote, my old professor of Ecclesiastical Haberdashery at Salamanca University.<\/p>\n
He says, \u201cMadre de Dios! This is a crime. I know the Holy Father says it\u2019s okay, but that makes me question papal infallibility I can tell you.\u201d He alway make me laugh, Monsignor. Hon, he say to me, \u201cThis should be for the boys because the altar servers, they are like little deacons. They serve at the altar and many, many boys first sense their vocation to the priesthood when they altar serve. How is this going to help us get more vocations if they let the girls do it? You see, boys don\u2019t want to do things with girls. They want to do things with their buddies and with the men. Then all they do is think that Mass is for girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s right! That\u2019s what Jimmy said.\u201d<\/p>\n
So anyway hon. Maybe I\u2019m making you mad, but you know what I mean? I think the girls should find other ways to serve God. What is this crazy thing anyway when everybody think that to do something for God you have to do something at the altar? This is for the priest.<\/p>\n
Why can\u2019t people be happy doing other things for Jesus? These girls should be like me. I\u2019m wanting to serve Jesus so I\u2019m starting up this little business making miters and birettas and zuchettos and maybe even \u00a0I\u2019ll try to make a saturno.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m trying to think of a name for this business. You have any ideas hon?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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