Lay Person Reading the Gospel

Document Title: "Lay Person Reading the Gospel
Question from on 04-17-2007:
I just read on this site where a lay person should NEVER read the Gospel at Mass. At our local Catholic nursing the presiding priest is legally blind and says Mass by heart with a lay person reading the Gospel. Is that permitted?

We now have a new priest and I read once after Father had cateract surgery.

Thank You and God Bless!
Answer by Rev. Mark J. Gantley, JCL on 04-19-2007:
These are obviously very different circumstances. I don't see a problem with this, after all, one is not bound to do the impossible.

Other than such circumstances, a lay person should never read the gospel at Mass."

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