At youth Mass, the kids get up to do readings.
I’m going to say it.
They read from the Bible. Three readings.
There is a cheat sheet book in every Church/Parish, published yearly to assist with inflection and pronunciation, to be read through and practiced beforehand.
The girls almost invariably get up and stumble through it and it is THE most grating thing, and I am reminded to write to the pastor about it. It is God’s Word and the girls find it acceptable, as do the parents and everyone else, that the girls are mutilating it. They are teens, not little kids, and they are volunteers.
The boys, ah, no.
Boys have a lot of faults, as do girls, unique to their gender. But doing such things in the correct manner is unique to boys. Do they have a predisposition to being publically professional?
And don’t get me started on the immodest outfits.
Though, I gotta say, Men, puleeze, we do NOT WANT to see your toes. Take the sandals and put them into the trash for the sanitation department to put them where they belong. Ditto shorts in the wrong setting. I am still scandalized that Obama plays golf in shorts. Were we ever subjected to the sight of Reagan’s legs?
He is the president. Could he just dress in a dignified way for the duration?
“He is the president. Could he just dress in a dignified way for the duration?”
He is, at best, a “gypsy in the Palace,” getting one over on “da man” so his peeps can live vicariously through his excesses.
In reference to your comments about Church readings, the absolute opposite is true in my church. I absolutely CRINGE at most of the males, from teens to senior citizens, when they do them. Most have more inflection and proper pronunciation when reading the sports page. They either race through the readings as if they don’t want to be there or obviously have a reading disability.
Some of the women have horrendous speaking voices, but at least they do not butcher the language and know how to read aloud. The teen girls just need a bit more practice speaking/reading in front of an audience.
I was in broadcasting and have coached folks in public speaking.