In 1972 Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic letter Ministeria quaedam ("Certain Ministries"), which abolished the major order of subdeacon and all minor orders and created the lay liturgical ministries of lector and acolyte.
The council then appointed a reader (lector), Majorinus, to replace Caecilian.
Educated at the Dominican convent at Strassburg and the studium generale at Cologne, Tauler later became a lector at Strassburg.
El gran lector by Solares continued in the author's vein of historical novels.
Among Madariaga's most notable essays are Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards (1928), a study of national psychology; Guía del lector del Quijote (1926; Don Quixote), an analysis of Cervantes' classic; and Spain (1942), a historical essay.
The second phase of the mass, the liturgy of the Word, typically consists of three readings: a reading from the Old Testament, a non-Gospel reading from the New Testament, and a reading from the Gospels; the first two readings are done by a lector (a lay reader), and the Gospel is proclaimed by the deacon.
The Latin church had long recognized four minor orders (porter, lector, exorcist, acolyte) and four major orders (subdeacon, deacon, priest, bishop).
(Caveat lector: A decade or so ago, for about a minute, Ku-czynski and I moved in the same circles, and she once gave me a recommendation for a dermatologist, whom I visited for a single consultation.
I was deeply engrossed in the ritual until the lector began the first reading, when from the corner of an eye I saw a young man of about 14 or 15.
I was curious about what drew him into isolation from my mother, my sister and me, and caused a mild-mannered lawyer and lector at our Catholic church to swear at our Zenith console for hours every Sunday.
