I have been the lector coordinator at my parish for about 60 hours now. Yes, just over two days. Already, I have learned that not everyone is addicted to email as I, so I'm going to have to pick up the phone tomorrow and this weekend and call those lectors who haven't responded to my call for verification of email, phone number, etc.
But today, at daily Mass, we had what I am calling the first success in this new ministry of mine. Thanks to the Lord, we now have two groups of lectors for daily Masses. There was some resistance at first, and it may not all be gone, but the new daily Mass lectors are now part of a buddy system.
As a lector for 25 years myself, the only part of the ministry that has always bothered me is that it is typically a loner ministry. What I mean is that I read my reading on the day scheduled and have little if any interaction with other lectors. But that has changed at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Milton, Florida, at least a little.
The parish has had one set of four lectors for over a decade, who together read the readings at all daily Masses. Now we have two sets, in Group A and Group B. The groups alternate weeks. But if you miss a day, for whatever reason, then your "buddy," the person who reads the same day as you but is in the other group, takes your place. And on solemnities (like tomorrow's Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), you both read together. What I saw today was readers for the same day, including myself, pair up with their "buddy" and exchange contact information and get to know each other. So there is fellowship, even if it is just a little, at our parish among some of the lectors.
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