Do you know what a "lector" does? "Lector" is Latinate for "reader". This is the person who stands up and reads, from the Bible, the passages that are on the schedule: an Old Testament passage and one of the Epistles, usually of Paul, The choir sings the Psalm, usually, and the Priest or Deacon reads the Gospel, usually.
So, what is the article bellyaching about? That WOMEN (gasp!) read the Bible in Mass. Heavens forfend! This is not "the way it was done" for 1400 years or so, so therefore it's "wrong".
Really?
That is tradition-mongering at its worst, the very thing that Protestants are always (sometimes rightly) screaming their heads off about.
So, is there something WRONG, in the eyes of God, with WOMEN reading the Bible?
If you say "Yes" to that, (1) Why do you believe that? and (2) How can you POSSIBLY really believe it?
Obviously there is nothing wrong with a woman reading the Bible. And obviously it has nothing at all to do with God, let alone sexuality.
The author of the article is bellyaching: clergymembers alone read the Bible for 1000 years, so therefor it is evil to change that and let other people do it. And doubly evil to let women do it.
Well, first, there aren't so many clergymembers left anymore.
And second, for 1000 years the Bible was in Latin, that only the educated clergy could read, so nobody COULD help them (and the people, hearing it, didn't understand what they were hearing anyway - the very thing that Protestants bellyache about).
Arch-traditionalists are classic Pharisees, raising the traditions above decency, and even above God Himself.
The Sanctuary has been likened to the womb wherein divine life is confected and thus it is only appropriate for the male, paternal figure of the priest or clergy to enter therein during the liturgy, like a husband approaching his wife.
What a freak show.
Can't wait for God to cleanse the earth of this cult.
In favor of what? Some other freak show cult? If there were a religion that actually listened to Jesus, I’d join it. None of the Christians do. For them, it’s all about who they say Jesus was, as opposed to what Jesus said for us to do. It’s fatiguing to the point of disgust. The Catholics ignore Jesus one way; the Protestants do it another another. It’s disgusting.
