HELPFUL SERVICE.

New Zealand Tablet, 30 May 1918, Page 45

HELPFUL SERVICE.

A material help for boys to prepare for future life is to serve at the altar. He who sacrifices his morning sleep, overcoming sloth, to minister to the priest at Mass, is already by a privilege fulfilling the functions of one of the minor orders. The devout server at Mass shares in its graces next to the celebrant, and more than the ordinary faithful who assist at it, and many an altar boy, as he glided about the sane-: tuary, mingling with the invisible angels who hovered around the Victim of Sacrifice, has felt the seeds of vocation sprouting in his soul.—The Rev. Francis Cassilly, S.J.