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An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell, helping bring up the gifts, and bringing up the liturgical books, among other things. If young, the server is commonly called an altar boy or ...
In the 9th century, at the Synod of Mainz, a decree was passed that "every priest should have a cleric or boy to read the epistle or lesson, to answer him at mass, and with whom he can chant the psalms." [citation needed] This is a clear indication for the substitution of altar boys for minor clerics of acolyte dating back for more than 1,000 ...
An acolyte can assist in worship by carrying a processional cross, lighting candles, holding the Gospel book, holding candles or "torches", assisting a deacon or priest set up and clean up at the altar, swinging a censer or thurible [21] or carrying the incense boat, handing the offering plates to ushers, and many other tasks as seen fit by the ...
The boat boy or boat bearer is a junior altar server position found in Catholic and Anglican churches. The role of a boat boy is to assist the thurifer, the senior altar server who carries the thurible. [1] The boat bearer carries the incense boat , a small metal container, Latin navicula, which holds the supplies of incense.
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York City in the 1940s and 50s, he spent a few years serving as an altar boy at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, the Catholic ...
Altar; Altar server; Altarage — the revenue reserved for the chaplain (altarist or altar-thane) in contradistinction to the income of the parish priest, it came to signify the fees received by a priest from the laity when discharging any function for them; Ambo; Ambry; Amovibility; Annulment – see: Declaration of Nullity (below) Apostolic ...
Altar servers are a substitute for an instituted acolyte. In several Christian Churches, women have traditionally been excluded from approaching the altar during the liturgy. Thus The Service Book of the Orthodox Church (English translation by Isabel Florence Hapgood) states that "no woman may enter the Sanctuary at any time". [2]
A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of sexually abusing a fellow student while they were both attending a school for papal altar boys. Partially overturning a first instance ...