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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2010-05-28 03:20 pm

Stretching my brain a little

I was talking with someone who mentioned that his church has a cantor. I had never heard of a cantor in a Christian church - apparently it's what we called "soloist" at my parents' church.

[identity profile] meirwen.livejournal.com 2010-05-28 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure it's an RC church, Dagonell? Usually there is a reading from the Old Testament (by a lay person/cantor), one from the New Testament (Letters, Acts, etc.), and then the priest (or deacon) does the reading from the Gospel. I've never heard of a lay person doing a Gospel reading in the RC church. *goes to consult*