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Lector meaning
A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service. | A public lecturer or reader at some universities. | A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
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She serves as an altar server and lector at weekly masses at her parish, St. Rose of Lima, where she attended school from kindergarten to eighth grade.
He was a member of the parish council, a lector, eucharistic minister, active member of the parish book club and served as the financial manager for the St. Vincent de Paul Society, an outreach program.
Now a homemaker with three children, Marquez serves as a lector for the Spanish-language Mass and translates for Spanish-speaking students in the religious education program.
The Lector takes up the cross of Christ as a prophet.
At St. Joseph Church in French Settlement, Deacon Dunn was a member of the youth group, a lector and an extraordinary minister of holy Communion.
Following his words, a lector read a series of questions, punctuated by intervals of reflection, for an examination of conscience.
Of the supporting cast, only Woody Harrelson/Carnage stands out, in a performance that mimics Hannibal Lector’s confinement to a cage in The Silence of the Lambs.
We say “yes” to coaching soccer when we have never kicked a soccer ball in our lives, “yes” to being den mother for troop 674, “yes” to subbing as a lector when we will have to skip mass with our family to show up.
Each convent had its lector.
He served as lector for fourteen years, from 1268 to 1282, according to Bernardus Guidonis.
Historically, a lector or reader was always employed to entertain cigar factory workers.
In 1276 he is attested as being lector at the Dominican convent in his native Treviso, a post he was still holding in 1280.
In 1482, instead of returning to Bologna to resume his studies, Savonarola was assigned as lector, or teacher, in the Convent of San Marco in Florence.
In February, 1282, he is found at Genoa, again as lector.
There is also a tradition that he instituted the four minor clerical orders: Porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte.
The second was Gentile Partino, OFM, Doctor of Theology and Lector of Theology in the Roman Curia, who was made Cardinal Priest of S. Martin in montibus.