Posted on 11/18/2017 5:44:19 PM PST by marshmallow
Oh the horrors....a layperson reading the Bible at church. /sarc
Reading from the Bible is something all should be doing.
The issue isn’t reading Scripture, but I think you know that.
Nice try.
Read what I wrote from the article......a layperson is doing this. And the harm is what? Only a priest can do this??
It is the “spirit of Vatican II” all over again.
A deacon, if you have one, if you don’t, a priest, with a bishop being the last resort.
**Lets Lay People Read Gospel**
Nope!
At Catholic Masses, only priests or deacons are supposed to read the Gospel readings (those from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), as opposed to the Old Testament readings and the NT Epistles or Book of Revelations.
If you are not Catholic, or are Catholic but don’t know or care about the rules, asking questions is fine. Asking sneering questions, on the other hand, is obnoxious. I don’t do that when it comes to other religions.
What is the harm in a regular person reading from Scripture in church?
What is the harm in a regular person reading the Scripture in church?
The Gospel is proclaimed by an ordained deacon or priest.
I can only imagine what the rationale behind that is.
But why can’t a regular person proclaim the Gospel??
“Harm” isn’t really the issue. In the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, the guidelines — the correct word may be “rubrics”, but I am unsure about that — are strict about who should read the Gospel. The Gospels — again, readings from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — are to be read by Priests (or bishops, etc.) or deacons, not by nuns or laypeople. The issue isn’t “harm”. These rules are decided or changed by the Vatican/Councils, not by fiat of individual Cardinals or bishops. Of course, when individual bishops do whatever they please, non-Catholics and Catholics who either don’t know the rules or resent them, ask, “What’s the big deal?” Well, I could ask what difference it makes if an Orthodox Jew eats a ham sandwich...but I wouldn’t ask that, because I understand that there is a logic underlying rules and there is a process to changing rules that make the rules more complicated than just whether one person should be “allowed” to chomp on a ham sandwich.
They aren’t an ordained deacon or a priest.
End of conversation.
“The Gospel is proclaimed by an ordained deacon or priest.”
The Gospel is proclaimed by everything in the universe.
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Seems Roman Catholicism has set up yet another "tradition" not substantiated in Scripture.
Roman Catholicism can do what it wants...it's just there is no Scriptural prohibition against a regular person reading the texts aloud in church.
So?
What's the requirement that someone has to be ordained to read a text?
Does it make the reading of the text better if the person is ordained?
Except it seems in Roman Catholic churches and only be a "select few".
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