Yes, unfortunately. Even Pope John Paul II in 1992, imagine it has been 30 years, he yielded to the pressures and allowed girls, and women, without indication of age, simply the female sex to be altar servers. This was spread like a virus in the Church, unfortunately. But it was, in my opinion, not so astonishing. Why? Even before John Paul II, Pope Paul VI allowed women to distribute Holy Communion during Holy Mass. So, imagine when a woman is distributing Holy Communion, standing beside the priest during Holy Mass and she's there in the sanctuary taking the chalice.
And thus, it would not be so distant when will women be allowed to serve at the altar when they have already been allowed by Pope Paul VI to distribute Holy Communion during the Holy Mass. And then allowed by the same Pope, Pope Paul VI, and then John Paul II to read the readings during the Mass, to go from the pews, and to stand in the sanctuary doing the ministry of lectors.
So, you see, it was not so far away. Therefore, the basic error of Pope Paul VI was that he allowed women to read readings during Mass and that he allowed women to give Holy Communion during Mass. So, we have to go deeper, this is a Protestantizing shape of the liturgy and contrary to the entire tradition of the Church. Those in the sanctuary during Mass must be from the male sex, the altar servers, and the lectors because they are connected through the male sex of the priesthood.
The priesthood, the ministerial priesthood, is reserved by God only for the male sex. Therefore, those who are around the priest during the sacrifice of the Mass, the servers, and the lectors, also have to be of the male sex to indicate that this area is a symbol, in a symbolic way for the male ministerial priesthood. Whereas the nave, which is outside the sanctuary, outside the communion rail symbolizes the Church as a female, as the bride of Christ, and this is therefore where the female belongs. The nave is the proper place for the female. Of course, there are also other men out there but they are there symbolically, for the entire Church as a bride.
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