Reciting the subtitle of a reading at Mass?

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I just want to point out that it’s not always wrong to recite this. This could be read by someone serving in the oft-forgotten ministry of commentator. The summary words certainly qualify as “thoroughly prepared and notable for their restraint” as the GIRM requires.

However, a commentator exercises his role at the direction of the priest celebrant - a reader cannot just decide to take it upon himself to comment when he sees the description above the reading. It would also be a bit unbalanced if the readings were the only part of mass where a commentator made remarks.
 
John_Martin said:
I actually find it a point of joy when people make the mistakes - I see people wanting to participate in the Mass, learning to be part of the heavenly liturgy.
My wife can’t sing on key, and she doesn’t sing if I start a verse late for some reason, so I sing so that she will sing (she likes to sing, and with me in public), so that is joyful to hear her.
When an altar boy forgets to bring the water to the altar and the Priest is waiting, signaling with his eyes or whisper, I find that to be joyful.
When kneelers are banging as people rise for the benediction at the end of the Mass, the noise is a song of the throng around the throne like the sound of many waters.

We are children learning to ride bicycles, learning to balance, and at times we put a foot on the ground to keep that balance, like reading the red, or needing an extra prompt to bring the water to the altar, or singing off key as we seek to sing, or banging a kneeler in a moment that could be silent. All a joy in seeing the miracle of human beings doing the works of God and of Angels in heavenly worship.
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Very beautifully stated!

We are after all “children” of the Lord!
 
FrDavid96 said:
I’ll agree on the mistakes part. We’re human. Mistakes happen.

However, there’s a difference between mistakes and downright stubbornness. It’s one thing to read the explanation by accident. It’s quite another when people say “I’m going to read this, no matter what…” And yes, that does happen.
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True that. It was one thing for me to proclaim that “a shoot will spring from the rump of Jesse”; it would have been quite another for me to say “The first reading today is from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 11, verses 1-5”😉
 
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