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Limoncello4021
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Practice beforehand, reading the passages out loud. You can usually tell those who practice ahead of time versus those encountering the reading for the first time.
Enunciate! Read slowly but naturally. Bad readers mumble to themselves or race through with no pauses for punctuation or natural emphasis.
Think about the meaning of what you are conveying and its importance as God’s Word.
Pray to give a good delivery and, more importantly, that those who have ears will hear.
Enunciate! Read slowly but naturally. Bad readers mumble to themselves or race through with no pauses for punctuation or natural emphasis.
Think about the meaning of what you are conveying and its importance as God’s Word.
Pray to give a good delivery and, more importantly, that those who have ears will hear.
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TheLittleLady
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And remember, Jonah went to Nineveh not Nivea
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Pitcairn17
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Also remember that “prostrate” and “prostate” are two very different things.
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BartholomewB
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If you’re reading from the book of Job, take care not to giggle when you come to the name of the shortest man in the Bible.
Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's request.
Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's request.
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EricF
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I think as lector’s we always keep in mind, that yes we are all supposed to frequently read our bibles, there are many that don’t. In that context, the only “bible” that some get is what we give them at Mass. I find that a great motivation to always strive to do it well.
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Limoncello4021
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And that Calvary is different than cavalry.
I once had a student interpret the martial theme of an entire Emily Dickinson poem in light of the poem’s word “cavalry.” It was a good paper, except for the fact that Dickinson’s word was actually “calvary” and the poem had nothing to do with war.
I once had a student interpret the martial theme of an entire Emily Dickinson poem in light of the poem’s word “cavalry.” It was a good paper, except for the fact that Dickinson’s word was actually “calvary” and the poem had nothing to do with war.
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PetraG
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I’d also suggest that if you want Father or the organizers to listen and give you feedback for improvement given the acoustics of the church, ask! They would probably be more than willing to listen outside of Mass and help you get the feedback you need to be your best.
I think getting that practice with feedback will both make you better much faster and also give you confidence that you’re assisting in the way Father wants you to do it.
I think getting that practice with feedback will both make you better much faster and also give you confidence that you’re assisting in the way Father wants you to do it.
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JanR
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The sense line format looks a lot like reading a verse of poetry, where the stanzas are broken up into separate lines. That is a lot easier than trying to muddle through whole paragraphs of type.
It also makes sense, because Scripture does tend to be poetic.
It also makes sense, because Scripture does tend to be poetic.
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Izzy1
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All these stories about incidents where everything didn’t go as planned makes me less nervous
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JanR
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One of my teachers told of a book written by Ernest Hemingway in which a single sentence took up an entire page, or nearly so. I’ve forgotten the title, and none of the Hemingway books I’ve read had it, but can you imagine a sentence so long that it takes up a whole page? The guy was long-winded, but really!
That’s why it’s better to break up long sentences into separate lines like in poetry stanzas – much easier to read.
That’s why it’s better to break up long sentences into separate lines like in poetry stanzas – much easier to read.
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dochawk
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I dunno.LOL! (I kinda doubt there are any family members sitting in the pews for the folks named in the Old Testament, though.)
My daughter used some free service to trace family trees.
I saw some stuff that I knew of the cuff about my family’s, and others that were wrong.
And much made sense, even as it started hitting some nobility in England and and Scotland; there were enough younger children that nearly everyone has such in their tree.
And then I noticed specific dates of birth and deaths of non-nobles in the Middle Ages, and started wondering how such data could possibly could have survived . . .
And then we started hitting historic figures in the first couple of centuries AD & BC, and then a few mores, and “whosamasudge of the Bible”, leading to more of the same, and eventually “Seth bar Adam”, “Almighty God” and “the Big Bang” . . .
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But he had a couple of brothers he sang with, right?
On my English AP test, I wrote about how appropriate it was that Huck Finn got shot instead of Tom Sawyer . . .
(no, I didn’t get any credits . . .)
I came to truly realize that when I was thrown into a fifth grade classroom to teach for a year . . . .
Clearly, you’ve never had to grade essay questions ! \
:crazy_face:yeah, I’ve read Faulkner (where the merely feel like that), and Joyce (were you really can’t tell . . .)
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