The curia--in one of its more retrograde moods--issued a draft document on June 5, 2003, that said using girls as altar servers should be avoided "unless there is a just pastoral cause," i.e., no boys want to do it.

We bring them over to the chapel and we show them things that I learned about as an altar server years ago: "Here's the crucifix, here are the cruets, here is the tabernacle." We have a greater struggle to acquaint them with Catholic culture, which will be central to their work as priests.

Laperle also volunteered for many years for the Diocese of Worcester as an Altar Server for the Daily Television Mass.

She is always pleasant to staff and students, and also supports the Catholic ethos of our school and wider community as an altar server at St Joseph's Parish.

One of them was a young woman who was a former altar server of a chaplain.

She volunteered as a eucharistic minister, a member of Women of Grace, bible study, faith foundation, an altar server and helped out in the religious goods store.

SLEEPING butterflies perched on dancing frangipani leaves in the moonlight are a bizarre sight on my way to begin my altar server job.

He said the resemblance between the two could have prompted the witness, an altar server, to point to Milan as the alleged gunman.

As a schoolgirl in Mourneabbey she was an altar server and worked as a waitress but her calling was clear and she joined the nursing college in Limerick.

Without being an altar server as a child, I would never have cared as much about the Mass or learned as much about my faith--that it is something done in community, that God is indeed present in the little things we do, and that faith is something I actively do, not something I simply hear.

In 2005 he excommunicated a priest of the diocese who concelebrated Mass with three "ordained women priests." Several years later he faced a human rights complaint after barring an individual from acting as an altar server due to a scandalous situation.

As a boy, Kit sang in the church choir and was an altar server. His parents are long-standing members of the church.

He acted as a altar server and took part in Cathedral processions.

CHURCHMAN Colin James Adams targeted a young altar server to sexually abuse, a court heard.

Mary is an altar server here and attends Mass on a daily basis and Pat is very involved in the parish."