Gospel carried in the begining, but not at end of mass

[Glennon_P]

I would have to disagree with Turner here. He mentions an instituted lector would be in the procession out, so it stands to reason then that the extraordinary minister of the word (the substitution for the lector) would do likewise, since the rubric simply says “ministers”. If there’s another rubric elsewhere (I’m not aware of one) governing the specific behaviors of readers vs instituted lectors that shows specific innate differences, then I would concede to Turner’s point.

This is interesting.

Our parish uses only installed lectors at Mass (school Masses excepted). Our lectors come out from the sacristy before mass to announce the processional hymn, and as I stated the other day, they remain in the sanctuary while the priest, acolyte, and altar servers process out during the recessional hymn.

 

[Phemie]

Phemie:

I would have to disagree with Turner here. He mentions an instituted lector would be in the procession out, so it stands to reason then that the extraordinary minister of the word (the substitution for the lector) would do likewise, since the rubric simply says “ministers”. If there’s another rubric elsewhere (I’m not aware of one) governing the specific behaviors of readers vs instituted lectors that shows specific innate differences, then I would concede to Turner’s point.

This is interesting.

Our parish uses only installed lectors at Mass (school Masses excepted). Our lectors come out from the sacristy before mass to announce the processional hymn, and as I stated the other day, they remain in the sanctuary while the priest, acolyte, and altar servers process out during the recessional hymn.

Installed or instituted lectors?

We have no instituted lectors unless we happen to have a seminarian visiting. Not sure that there are any instituted lectors in our diocese since, AFAIK, we have no seminarians or permanent deacons in training and our diocese doesn’t institute acolytes or lectors.

 

[on_the_hill]

In most parishes the readers come from the assembly to read and return to the assembly when they are finished.

In most churches I’ve been to, the reader sits up on the sanctuary throughout the Mass. At the cathedral, however, the reader sits in the assembly, walks the long walk to the lectern, reads, then walks the long walk back to the assembly. It takes forever.

 

[Phemie]

Phemie:

In most parishes the readers come from the assembly to read and return to the assembly when they are finished.

In most churches I’ve been to, the reader sits up on the sanctuary throughout the Mass. At the cathedral, however, the reader sits in the assembly, walks the long walk to the lectern, reads, then walks the long walk back to the assembly. It takes forever.

When I first started being a reader we did sit in the sanctuary but it’s been at least 20 years since the last time I did so. At most parishes I go to the readers sit close to the front and don’t have to walk too far.

 

[Glennon_P]

Installed or instituted lectors?

We have no instituted lectors unless we happen to have a seminarian visiting. Not sure that there are any instituted lectors in our diocese since, AFAIK, we have no seminarians or permanent deacons in training and our diocese doesn’t institute acolytes or lectors.

Insituted…my bad on the choice of words. Our diocese has had a training program for instituted lectors and acolytes since the early 1980s.

 

[OldCAFMember]

Slightly off topic but related - Does anyone attend a parish which has a Gospel procession into the body/nave of the church? It was common Anglican practice to take the Gospel in a solemn fashion into the midst of the people. This is still allowed in the Ordinariate Use but it seems to be the norm in most Latin Rite Catholic churches to read the Gospel from the ambo.

The gospel in the nave was an innovation in broad Anglican churches in the 1950s and 1960s, when liturgy began to be the subject of experimentation. Prior to that the practice did not exist; high churches did it in a fashion similar to RC churches, and low churches did it from the pulpit/lectern. In the RCC, when the Order of Mass was revised in 1970, the ambo became the focal point where the Word of God was proclaimed; this included the gospel, so the rubrics directed that it be said or sung from there.

 

[Phemie]

I think he’s referring to taking the Book of Gospels into the assembly before going to the Ambo. I’ve only seen that in a video we use for Baptismal preparation. This video originated in a parish in Las Vegas in 1997. Never seen it done at any Mass I’ve attended.

 

[OldCAFMember]

I think he’s referring to taking the Book of Gospels into the assembly before going to the Ambo. I’ve only seen that in a video we use for Baptismal preparation. This video originated in a parish in Las Vegas in 1997. Never seen it done at any Mass I’ve attended.

He’s talking about Masses of the Anglican Ordinariate, according to the Divine Worship Missal.

 

[Dolphin]

My parish carries the book out as well. I have done it numerous times