For altar servers, role is in the name.

Sun (Yuma, AZ) | November 4, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Juana M. Gyek

Nov. 4--When sister and brother Amanda and John Barczynski attend church, they participate in a special and different way than the rest of the attendees. Before each Mass at Immaculate Conception Church, they go to the back and start their ritual, putting on a red cassock and pulling on a surplice over it. The Barczynski siblings wear this traditional outfit because they serve Mass as altar servers. Amanda, 10, and John, 12, are two of many boys and girls who learn at a young age the "art" of serving and assisting the priest during Mass, ...

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