Recent understanding and study about the nature of the worship assembly has given a new significance and status to the role of the Usher/Greeter. As a minister of hospitality, people should be made to feel welcome when they come to worship with us, whether it is their first time here or if they have been with us for years.
As ministers of the Word, lectors are called to do what John the Baptist did: proclaim over and over again, “Prepare the way of the Lord!” The role of the lector is to bring God’s Word in Scripture more easily into the lives of all who have ears to hear, namely the assembly. Therefore, they should strive to proclaim the Word of God in a way that touches the hearts of all who come to the liturgy in the hope of challenging them to live that Word.