Altar server age limit?

[Spiritual_Arsonist]

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Normally, this is how it happens, then they slap a roman collar on you.

[StMichael]

Min age for an Altar Boy, right after communion
Max age, used to be 14, but now I see Altar Boys as old as 18.

[qfnol31]

I'm 20 and often asked/begged to serve. :

[qfnol31]

[quote name='Aloysius' date='Aug 8 2005, 03:04 PM']Paul VI suppressed the minor orders and in the United States any Catholic male (not necessarily a seminarian)z[b] of at least 25 years may be made an acolyte by the bishop.[/b][right][snapback]677306[/snapback][/right]
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Where did you discover the age?

[Paladin D]

The only way I could be an acolyte is if I were going to seminary to become a priest, right?

[zabbazooey]

I want to be an EMHC soooo bad!!!!!!!!

[qfnol31]

[quote name='Paladin D' date='Aug 9 2005, 11:16 AM']The only way I could be an acolyte is if I were going to seminary to become a priest, right?
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Actually, this depends on your Bishop. I don't believe it was ever intended for this to be the case.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='qfnol31' date='Aug 9 2005, 12:21 PM']Actually, this depends on your Bishop.  I don't believe it was ever intended for this to be the case.
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Ah, does anyone have any more detailed information about the Acolytes?

[qfnol31]

In what way?

[Paladin D]

[quote name='qfnol31' date='Aug 9 2005, 12:24 PM']In what way?
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Internet?

[iggy]

One of my friends is 20, not going into the seminary, and is an acolyte.

[Cam42]

[quote name='Paladin D' date='Aug 8 2005, 11:18 AM']Is there an altar server age limit?  Also, where would I go to learn more info about the acoylites?  I'm 18, and I don't know if it's normal for someone my age to be an altar server.
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Nope....I know several retirees that serve Mass.

I also serve Mass and I am 33. Incidentally, I am an acolyte, so it is the ministry that is proper to me.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='Cam42' date='Aug 9 2005, 01:09 PM']Nope....I know several retirees that serve Mass.

I also serve Mass and I am 33.  Incidentally, I am an acolyte, so it is the ministry that is proper to me.
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Where can I go to find more info about the acolytes?

[Cam42]

Some of the things that I can do....

I am formally entrusted with lighting the altar candles.

I am a permanent Extraordinary minister of Holy Communion.

I can assist the deacon during the Mass.

I can purify the vessels after Holy Communion.

I can expose and repose the Blessed Sacrament.

Before Vatican Council II, one was ordained to the highest of the minor orders, however, it was changed around 1972 to institution. Now, any MAN can be instituted as an acolyte, although it is rare today.

From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 65
[quote]The acolyte is instituted to serve at the altar and to assist the priest and deacon. In particular it is for him to prepare the altar and the vessels and, as a special minister of the Eucharist, to give communion to the faithful.[/quote]

[Paladin D]

I would like to be an acolyte, unfortunately there is nothing on the Richmond Diocese website about it. I'll have to talk to my priest.