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#26808 - 12/13/05 08:40 AM Re: Lectors to be Tonsured
Pavel Ivanovich Offline
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This may be for the same reason that the lay ministry of reader has largely not happend in the Latin Rite. Only men can go through it and it is the intention of many bishops that women should perform the task of reading in church, which they would be excluded from if an instituted reader was present. The formal institution for males may already be part of one of the minor orders in the Byzantine Rite.

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#26809 - 12/13/05 08:44 AM Re: Lectors to be Tonsured
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Deacon Lance,

They have been used in the Pittsburgh Ruthenian Metropolia since the time of Archbishop Dolinay and I have personally witnessed their use in certain Latinized parishes. These parishes are also the ones that don't have Iconostasis and continue to have Latin services such as Stations of the Cross instead of the Presanctified Gifts lenten service. This I believe is very wrong and should be stopped, as it is not very characteristic of the Eastern Catholic Churches!

Ungcsertezs

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#26810 - 12/13/05 12:30 PM Re: Lectors to be Tonsured
Joe T Offline
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Originally posted by Deacon Lance:
Joe,

To my knowledge no training program or formal blessing and installation has yet to be formulated. I have never seen them used but I understand that some parishes were using them before they were allowed by our particular law. I would assume they requested permission from the bishop.

Fr. Deacon Lance
Fr. Deacon Lance,
Why would a church install ministers without a liturgy? Will these future formulations/blessings be shared with the Orthodox? In the meantime, does your bishop make use of minor orders? This tradition has been around for ages and has its own liturgies of installation/blessing. Do you think these new ministries are a mere borrowing from the Latin Church? I do. It has nothing to do with utilizing what we already have on the books.

Joe

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