The Advocate

Altar societies are ministries of quiet service in church communities

John Lennon said, "When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps." Those who ...
Independent.ie

Austin was an altar boy in the Linen Hall Church

I had forgotten the required soft white shoes so I can still hear down the years the echoing noise of the steel tips of my shoes on the tiled sanctuary floor.There was an army of 40 altar servers all ...
Crime

Torquay priests' fundraiser so they can wash their holy laundry

A young priest has put out a public call to help fundraise so that he and his young trainee can wash their robes and church altar linens. Canon Scott Tanner is the new priest at the Church of the Holy ...
PBS

Brian Doyle’s Memoir “Altar Boy”

Read an excerpt from Brian Doyle’s memoir “Altar Boy.” It appears in RESURRECTING GRACE: REMEMBERING CATHOLIC CHILDHOODS, a collection of essays edited by Marilyn Sewell and published by Beacon Press: ...