8th Grade. I always enjoyed it when I served.

8th grade for father Krebs. Loved the money for doing weddings and funerals.

I also read about half of the children's masses from 6th-8th grade. I missed a lot of my first period class!

 

As a student at St. Anthony's back in the 70's I always thought he was the tallest man alive, his presence alone was enough to put you on the "straight and narrow"!!! :eyeonyou:

 

I also did alot of funerals back in the day, missing a class or two and earning a "10 spot" was like hitting the lottery for kid back then. :up:

I served at the "other" St. Anthony's in Taylor Mill a couple years ago. We have a once a year Mass on a Saturday in December at 6:15 a.m. for the Men's Group. You can't pay a kid enough to wake up to serve that! That left me to step up. It was pretty fun (except the part of being on my knees without a pew or kneeler)! Somebody joked that they heard my knees crack.

Back in the fifties. Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

 

What a great line. We really ought to bring that one back, even in English.

I will go unto the Alter of God The God who gave ( Gives ?) joy to my youth

 

Present tense. In translation, I always thought "giveth" sounded best.

This question is for all the BGP catholics out there. This evening at 5:30 mass at Divine Mercy in Bellevue, as I entered church Fr. Prasad asked me if my daughters were with me, since all three of my girls regularly serve at 5:30 mass. I responded "no, they were going in the morning with my wife". He comes back saying that the servers scheduled were "no shows" and as I looked around the church I noticed that there were no children in attendence. I said, "no problem I can handle it. I promptly went back and "donned" the sacred gear and preformed like a champ. :ylsuper:

 

This was the 1st time I had served in 10 years, as I served the final mass ever at St. Anthony's Church in Bellevue back in July of 2003. Before that I served all through high school.

 

So to all my good catholic BGP'ers....When was the last time you served at Mass?

Last time I served was in 1978

 

Don't think I could do it anymore lol, forgot too much

I never did serve growing up. My older brother did but for some reason my mom never made me. However, at my wedding and at a friend's wedding I was a Eucharistic Minister. I highly recommend being a Eucharistic Minister for your own wedding.

Serving 6:15 AM Mass at St. Stephen's on a school day for Father Bradley (who rode a motorcycle) then walking to Manyets bakery to get breakfast before school.

 

That was cool! (or so I thought.....)

I was able to serve the funeral of a good friend's father a few years ago. There were 7 guys from our crowd of friends - all in our late 20's at the time - who ended up serving the funeral mass. It was very cool. 4 acolytes with candles, 2 thurifers, and the cross-bearer. My buddy's dad would have liked it, no doubt.

Never served when I was younger and I regret it.

Serving 6:15 AM Mass at St. Stephen's on a school day for Father Bradley (who rode a motorcycle) then walking to Manyets bakery to get breakfast before school.

 

That was cool! (or so I thought.....)

 

Sophomore religion class at NewCath was a "nightmare" with Fr. Bradley. :eek: