Do you know what a "lector" does? "Lector" is Latinate for "reader". This is the person who stands up and reads, from the Bible, the passages that are on the schedule: an Old Testament passage and one of the Epistles, usually of Paul, The choir sings the Psalm, usually, and the Priest or Deacon reads the Gospel, usually.
So, what is the article bellyaching about? That WOMEN (gasp!) read the Bible in Mass. Heavens forfend! This is not "the way it was done" for 1400 years or so, so therefore it's "wrong".
Really?
That is tradition-mongering at its worst, the very thing that Protestants are always (sometimes rightly) screaming their heads off about.
So, is there something WRONG, in the eyes of God, with WOMEN reading the Bible?
If you say "Yes" to that, (1) Why do you believe that? and (2) How can you POSSIBLY really believe it?
Obviously there is nothing wrong with a woman reading the Bible. And obviously it has nothing at all to do with God, let alone sexuality.
The author of the article is bellyaching: clergymembers alone read the Bible for 1000 years, so therefor it is evil to change that and let other people do it. And doubly evil to let women do it.
Well, first, there aren't so many clergymembers left anymore.
And second, for 1000 years the Bible was in Latin, that only the educated clergy could read, so nobody COULD help them (and the people, hearing it, didn't understand what they were hearing anyway - the very thing that Protestants bellyache about).
Arch-traditionalists are classic Pharisees, raising the traditions above decency, and even above God Himself.
The fact that the Catholic Bible has been translated everywhere into the vernacular, and is read out to them in their native language every week represents the VICTORY of the Reformation over the Catholic Church. The Church of the Reformation was burning people alive for translating the Bible into the vernacular - and it was dead wrong for doing it.
So, the Protestants won the point. But there are STILL people bellyaching about everything. It's read my WOMEN! (Gasp!). AND it's not even in LATIN! (Horror.) But if you bring the oldest Bibles, which are all in GREEK and read them, well, that's wrong too, because it's not LATIN.
Tradition-mongering nonsense. Idiots. People whose God is actually their traditions. Incense and robes (covering penises, mind you), THAT'S God!
