Lectors

Tom and Ginny, his wife of 68 years, were among the original residents of Levittown, PA, and were active in St. Michael the Archangel parish as lectors and volunteers.

Addressing the seminarians who would be instituted as lectors, the bishop said that during seminary the Church wants them to learn to love the Word of God.

Pastor, musician and lectors under makeshift awnings.

Particularly popular in Florida’s cigar factories, which were modeled on similar operations in Cuba, lectors were banned in many factories in 1931 after the Tampa cigar-makers strike.

They may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, or lectors—all ministries which are now open to the non-ordained.