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“I want to talk about female altar servers, and my experience…”
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deacon greg kandra
A couple days ago, I posted an amusing photograph from my parish’s Thanksgiving Day mass. To my amazement, it unleashed a tiny firestorm of comment and debate on the subject of girls serving on the altar. One veteran of my parish altar server society, who is now in college, was particularly upset by the reaction,…
You talkin’ to me? YOU talkin’ to ME??
By
deacon greg kandra
A parishioner sent this to me: a snapshot from the Living Rosary that we prayed outside my church last month (the month of the rosary). The plates served as our “beads” — blue for the Hail Mary, white for the Our Father. The young woman to my right, pretending not to know me, is The…
Casting out our NET
By
deacon greg kandra
As I mentioned several weeks ago, I’ve embarked on a new chapter of my professional life, as News Director for our diocesan cable channel. On December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, (and the feast day of our diocese) what has been known for over 40 years as The Prayer Channel will be reborn…
Where I was yesterday
By
deacon greg kandra
A parishioner sent me the photo below, from our Thanksgiving Day mass. I’m one of the guys up behind the altar. I think the photo may have been snapped on a cell phone. I especially like that the photographer caught the altar server up front, scratching. Heh.
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