Same here, as a Novus Ordo Lector who understands what exactly it is. Lectoring isn’t about just reading things off a page, nor its other extreme to interject dramatism and self-experiementation of the liturgy into it (though small emphasis might be needed to emphasize a catechecal point or say the name of our Lord Jesus Christ). It is first and foremost the proclaiming (not “reading”) of the Word of God, and we should be thankful that the Church even has allowed laypeople to touch the Word during the Mass post Vatican II, because it was regulated before to those of the Minor orders and clergy only.
In fact all the ministries of altar server/acolyte, lector, usher/porter still have the official ordinary ministers being seminarians and clergy. All laypeople who do these “ministries” in the church are COMISSIONED to do so, not INSTITUTED as those of minor orders in Extraordiary Form apostolates or organizations and seminaries are. It’s not a right, its a **privilege **as a layperson to be even comissioned to do so, so “Say the Black and do the Red” as Fr. Z often quotes.
And as a subpoint point, If you read Paul’s epistles in the Bible, he does not say “Brothers and Sisters” in the actual texts he wrote every single time, possibly never (someone clarify that one). Maybe in actuality he wrote this greeting at the beginning of his epistles as they were letters, but this seems like some kind of liturgical add-on that really is unnecessary overall for the Readings at Mass, and many of the readings at mass are parts of the full chapters or letters in the Bible, not complete readings or epistles.
