Friday, December 03, 2010

This Year's Boy Bishop

Every year at St Joseph's Catholic School around St Nicholas' Day we revive the ancient custom of the Boy Bishop. The Middle School servers elect an eighth grader to be bishop and two runners up to be his canons. The Boy Bishop processes in at Mass, receives the offertory gifts and preaches a sermon after Mass. At lunch he and his canons hand out candy to the students. This year's Boy Bishop is Andrew Schatterman picured here with canons Michael Connelly and Joseph Kiser.
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Posted by Fr Longenecker at Friday, December 03, 2010

2 comments:

priest's wife said...

I love this tradition!

1:27 PM
Mrs. Rudd said...

So do I, and didn't know that it was still celebrated. Most of my information comes from old books who always end with "And it was suppressed by Henry VIII".

One author said, in favor of the custom, that "the hopes that at one time or other they might attain to the real mitre, made them mind their books." I think it is also a good way to plant the idea that the collar 'fits'.

By the way, handsome group.

11:58 AM

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