We have an 80-something year-old-retired priest coming to a small chapel run / owned by the local parish.  The local priest has been gracious enough to hand over the keys.  Praise be Jesus.  Here are the questions.   (1)  The priest travels a great distance, and will not be in charge of the altar linens.  (He is unapproachable.  He just says Mass, and that's it.)  The few of us attending Mass also travel a some distance.  Somehow, it fell to ME (a female) to take care of the altar linens.  Since there is no one else to do it, should I still refuse?  Obey?  My husband is unable to make the journey, to do the work.  Our oldest son is 17, so he could do it, if that would be better????  Either way, I feel so disobedient!  We do have a book explaining how to handle the special pieces which can not be washed regularly.  (2)  The priest, while making amazing efforts to come, is also, very pro-modernism.  About 90% of his sermons are morally shocking.  (He'll quote the American Medical Association, for example, saying that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity is not a pyschological illness, etc.)  Due to his age, his sermons never actually make any sense, exactly, so most people try to pray and avoid hearing what he is saying.  I have told the few others coming to Mass that I feel that it is God's Will we shut down, despite the fact that we do not have any other options within traveling distance.  Everyone else (except my husband) thinks I'm being ungrateful. Anyone have knowledge / experience? God bless!  

In the fifties my mother was in the Altar Society.
This description is from a NO church but it is similar to the tasks that the Altar Society performed prior to VII.


http://www.saintjosephsouthlyon.org/our-community/altar-society-