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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 13, 2019 20:48:08 GMT -5
Is there any record of altar boys having ever served Mass barefoot?
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Post by RitaMarita on Jan 21, 2019 14:07:50 GMT -5
Interesting question... 🤔
I think that some of the Franciscans monks were known to always go bareboot. So, maybe some of them were barefoot servers? 🙃
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 21, 2019 16:29:02 GMT -5
Interesting question... 🤔 I think that some of the Franciscans monks were known to always go bareboot. So, maybe some of them were barefoot servers? 🙃 Silly question, no doubt, but as I was at Mass a couple Sundays ago looking at the servers shoes I wondered if perhaps when a family had 12+ kids and were poor if the little guys had to share shoes with their brothers, wearing too big or too small or if they ever were barefoot.
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Post by RitaMarita on Jan 24, 2019 9:25:28 GMT -5
Interesting question... 🤔 I think that some of the Franciscans monks were known to always go bareboot. So, maybe some of them were barefoot servers? 🙃 Silly question, no doubt, but as I was at Mass a couple Sundays ago looking at the servers shoes I wondered if perhaps when a family had 12+ kids and were poor if the little guys had to share shoes with their brothers, wearing too big or too small or if they ever were barefoot. Not a silly question at all! I am sure there were altar servers in the middle ages who didn't have shoes because they couldn't afford them. Your thread has definitely given us food for thought! And helps us to appreciate the fact that we have shoes. This also reminds me of how on Good Friday in the Old Tridintine Holy Week Services the priests all take off their shoes before they approach the crucifix to venerate it.
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Post by Jason Chiu on Mar 23, 2022 11:31:19 GMT -5
I think it is ok to be barefeet for altar boys. Jesus always wear sandals. It looks pure and simple. I myself once wore sandals while serving Mass as an altar boy.
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Post by Jason Chiu on Mar 23, 2022 11:33:43 GMT -5
I once wore sandals while serving as altar boy. U think ok to be barefeet.
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Post by Butterfly3 on May 22, 2022 12:24:37 GMT -5
I was reading this book online archives website called, A history of the Mass and its ceremonies in the Eastern and Western church by O'Brien, John, 1841-1879 archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheMassAndItsCeremonies/page/n211/mode/2upIt says Mass must be said with shoes on. Well, it was talking about the Priests and clergy but still very interesting to read. How I've been reading in the Mass exact things that are allowed and not, I'm sure somewhere there's a book/let that talks about what the servers are allowed to do and not.
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Post by RitaMarita on May 23, 2022 6:40:36 GMT -5
In the book "The Keys of the Fisherman" about the life of Pope Saint Pius X, it was said that he didn't own any shoes and so he borrowed shoes from friends to serve for Mas and then gave them back. 😅
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Post by Butterfly3 on May 23, 2022 12:24:15 GMT -5
Oh aha, that's cool. Funny too giving them back to the man, lol
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Post by RitaMarita on May 24, 2022 19:39:37 GMT -5
Oh aha, that's cool. Funny too giving them back to the man, lol I believe he was a boy at the time and his family was too poor to afford shoes.
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