Altar servers take part in a Good Friday service at a church in Gora Kalwaria, Poland, in this April 10, 2020, file photo. Being an altar server should be a “profession of faith” to the entire parish ...

This video was sent to me today and I want to say that I find it beautiful. What makes the video so good is that it inspires a spirituality for the server that includes some of the following ...

As I sit and wait, thousands of thoughts are running through my mind. Where is everyone? What if I have to do this all by myself? Will I remember my cues? That was how I felt on my first day of altar ...

The Diocese of Palayamkottai in India launched its first altar server training program, teaching 1,570 children across five parishes more about the sacred role. With the support of the Diocese of ...

More than 50,000 pilgrims representing 88 dioceses across 20 European countries have descended upon Rome this week to participate in the 13th International Pilgrimage of Altar Servers 2024 taking ...

When I was a young girl attending Mass with my family at St. Mary's Catholic Church in the 1960s and '70s, I don't ever remember wanting to be an altar server. So the fact that I ended up becoming one ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — For 12-year-old Greg Metcalf, being an altar server is “a guy thing.” And he and his fellow servers at St. Joseph Parish here want to keep it that way. Although other parishes in the ...

"Am I the only one who is like: wait, women aren't explicitly allowed to be lectors and altar servers before this?" Flora Tang wrote on Twitter Jan. 11. She was not, in fact, the only one. (For ...

A group of altar servers have earned praise after a post went viral showing how they helped a beggar in Davao province in the Mindanao region. The servers of San Roque Parish in Mawab posted on Oct. 3 ...

Wilkes-Barre Council 302 Knights of Columbus conducted its annual Altar Server Recognition Program at St. Nicholas Church, South Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre. The 10 youths were presented ...

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka, during an audience with pilgrims from Sri Lanka after a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 8, 2014. (Credit: Paul ...