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Home Ministries Sacramental Program Youth Ministry Athletic Program Cornerstone Office of Religious Education St. Peter Academy Music Ministry Pastoral Council v v v Website Feedback Site Map Links Parish Suggestion Box			Liturgical Ministers Lectors "The Lord has given me a well-trained tongue, that I may know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them." Contact: Kathy Nugent (201) 986-0922 ► Current Schedule Back to Liturgical Ministers Page Instituted Lectors In 1972 Paul VI reformed what had been called "minor orders" which included that of Lector, in his Motu Proprio Ministeria quaedam. The Lector was to be instituted by a bishop in a liturgical ceremony. The term "instituted reader" is used to distinguish someone who has been instituted in this way, from someone who is simply appointed to read at Mass. In the Service of the Word The ministry of the reader and the commentator is: To proclaim the readings from Scripture, with the exception of the gospel. To announce the intentions for the general intercessions. In the absence of the psalmist, to sing or read the psalm between the readings. To provide explanations and commentaries with the purpose of introducing the faithful to the celebration and preparing them to understand it better. Those who exercise the ministry of lector must be truly qualified and carefully prepared in order that the faithful will develop a warm and lively love for Scripture from listening to the reading of the sacred texts. BEDE the Venerable Bede, also known as Venerable Bede; Father of English History. His feast day is on May 25. Bede was born around the time England was finally completely Christianized, 673, in Wearmouth, England. R He was raised from age seven in the abbey of Saints Peter and Paul at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and lived there his whole life. Spiritual student of the founder, Saint Benedict Biscop. Priest; ordained by Saint John of Beverley. Benedictine. Monk. Teacher. Hagiographer. Writer. His writings started the idea of dating this era from the incarnation of Christ. The central theme of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica is of the Church using the power of its spiritual, doctrinal, and cultural unity to stamp out violence and barbarism. Our knowledge of England before the 8th century is mainly the result of Bede's writing. Doctor of the Church on 13 November 1899 by Pope Leo XIII. He died on May 25, 735. Bede can be depicted as an old monk with a book and pen; old monk with a jug; monk writing at a desk; old monk dying amidst his community. POLLIO His day of memorial is on the 28^th of April. He was a lector of the church of Cybalae in Pannonia. Pollio was martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian between 284 and 305 A.D. Pollio was burned alive in 304 A.D. SABAS Sabas was a Goth. He was a lector in a church in what is now Romania. Captured by heathen Goths, he refused to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols. He and several others were martyed for this. He was tortured to death, then thrown into the river Mussovo in 372.			Parish Info Welcome Parish Staff & Contacts Address & Directions Mass Schedule Weekly Bulletin Monthly Calendar Office Hours Join St. Peter's v Ministry Schedules Change of Address Request Hospital Visit Counseling Service Parish Newsletter