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Recent Examples of lector
Pope Francis’s initiatives included: Spiritus Domini (2021), which formally allowed women to serve as lectors and acolytes in Canon Law.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
Eggar was active as a lector/lay minister at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and at Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Sherman Oaks, leading weekly meditations until the pandemic.
—Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Pope Francis, though, changed canon law to allow women to serve as acolytes and lectors — laypeople who perform functions such as setting up the altar and reading the Bible.
—John Blake, CNN, 15 July 2024
There were efforts to organize fake lectors, which are being litigated and criminal charges have been brought in many states.
—CBS News, 26 May 2024
Caveat lector: Failing to peruse this list of July releases may result in a severe deficit of variety in your vacation reading.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
While continuing to affirm that women cannot be priests, the move was a gamechanger for women in dioceses that had adhered strictly to previous wording regarding acolyte and lector positions and barred women from such roles.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
Borowski and his wife Katy are lectors at Our Lady of Divine Providence Parish and St. Casimir Church.
—Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2023
Dillion was a regular at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, a lector who read scripture at Mass, nola.com reported.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lector
Noun
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So these two feel like the perfect guides to help a layman understand the Musk phenomenon.—
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Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space.—
Noun
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Both Boyd and Sereno say that some of the terminology in their field could confuse a layperson.—
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Why OpenAI wants massive computing power The kind of numbers OpenAI and friends throw around—10 gigawatts here, $500 billion there—are somewhat staggering and mind-boggling in scope for the layperson who might not be familiar with the massive scale of Internet infrastructure.—
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“Lector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lector. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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