As a Lector, would you ever

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Not unless I was specifically instructed to do so by someone who has the authority to make such a decision.
 
I would never consider it the lector’s choice to make. The priest is the authority.
 
When I was a lector, the priest always told me which reading he wanted me to read. It was usually the shorter one except for maybe the Passion.
 
The standing rule at my parish is to do the short version, unless the one preaching (priest or deacon) that day gives prior notice.

Technically, it’s the presider’s option, but I leave it to the one preaching, for obvious reasons.

When a short form is given, it’s usually because the long form is just that “long” but quite frankly, often “too long.”
 
Simca said:
read the optional shorter version of a Sunday reading?
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What prompts your question? It lacks context.

Most people who read at Mass are not instituted as lectors. Most are simply “readers”. But, reader or lector, it isn’t their decision to make. It is the presider’s.

So, the answer to the question would be, the read or lector reads whatever the presider selects for them to read-- long or short reading, primary or optional reading-- among the lectionary choices for whatever type of mass they are reading at.
 
1ke said:
What prompts your question? It lacks context.

Most people who read at Mass are not instituted as lectors. Most are simply “readers”. But, reader or lector, it isn’t their decision to make. It is the presider’s.

So, the answer to the question would be, the read or lector reads whatever the presider selects for them to read-- long or short reading, primary or optional reading-- among the lectionary choices for whatever type of mass they are reading at.
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I guess it’s different in every parish. For example, at ours, it’s always the reader’s choice when there’s two Alleluia’s, etc. The priest/presider never gives a preference in the readings. (except for the Good Friday/Holy Thursday services)

In looking at this Sunday’s readings, which are all long, and the shorter version of the 2nd reading says it all. So I was just hoping to get a general idea of that others would do in a generic case, without having to go into much explanation.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
I would never consider it the lector’s choice to make. The priest is the authority.
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This.

Not only would I not default to one or the other “unless instructed by the celebrant/preacher”, I would make a point to ask the celebrant which reading to proclaim.

And I have some difficulty understanding the audacity of those who would not explicitly ask?? But that might just be me 🤷

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That is not the decision of the Lector, it is the Pastor’s or Celebrant’s.
 
FrDavid96 said:
I think that meant “two different options for the Alleluia verse.” As in “pick either option A or option B.”
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Oh, in our parish if it’s not sung it’s not done.

Sometimes we have someone from the congregation sing it at the Saturday evening Mass. If no one starts to sing it’s simply omitted.
 
Phemie said:
Two Alleluias?
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Well technically, in the Roman Gradual, when doing the Mass in Gregorian chant, during Easter season the Gradual is replaced by a second Alleluia (actually it becomes the first Alleluia and the usual Alleluia becomes the second).

However there’s no responsorial psalm in Mass done in Gregorian chant, the psalm is replaced by the Gradual.

In the Roman Missal, the antiphon for the responsorial psalm can be replaced by an Alleluia during Easter season. So I guess in a way there “can” be two Alleluias in the Mass.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Gradual sung at a parish Mass, only in monasteries. I can’t recall that our schola either, has ever sung the Gradual at Mass. We usually do the responsorial psalm in French, with either Latin or French antiphon in a Gregorian mode for Latin, or a Gregorian adaptation for French.

We have sung the Gradual “Christus Factus Est” but only at Lauds of Holy Saturday (during the Triduum, the responsory is replaced by this Gradual at the LOTH, starting with a short segment on Holy Thursday finishing with the entire Gradual on Holy Saturday).
 
Simca said:
I guess it’s different in every parish. For example, at ours, it’s always the reader’s choice when there’s two Alleluia’s, etc. The priest/presider never gives a preference in the readings. (except for the Good Friday/Holy Thursday services)

In looking at this Sunday’s readings, which are all long, and the shorter version of the 2nd reading says it all. So I was just hoping to get a general idea of that others would do in a generic case, without having to go into much explanation.
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Well then, arrive early and ask the priest. If he says, “I don’t care” then say, “I think I’ll read the short version then. Ok with you Father?” And leave it up to him to nod, grunt, or do nothing. Those would be signs of concurrence in my book.
 
Phemie said:
Two Alleluias?
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Maybe it’s just because I don’t live in America, but the readers always get to pick between two Alleluias, both on Sundays and during the week. No one would ask the priest which one to read, it’s always just up to us.
 
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