Minimum Age for Readers at Mass?

Minimum Age for Readers at Mass?

Is there a minimum age before someone can be designated as a reader at Mass? Must that person be confirmed? There is no minimum age, and having received the Sacrament of Confirmation is not a requirement. Carrying out this service to the Church is a matter of someone’s ability to read effectively in a faith-filled way during public worship. The Evangelist, the newspaper for the Diocese of Albany, New York, carried a story last August about Jacks…