Pope Francis is wrong on things that endanger lives, confuse people about good and evil, etc. This one is not as big a deal as letting Christians in China and Nigeria suffer, as an example.
I’m a lector. I happen to be female. I don’t care what name you give it. I’m carefully, prayerfully doing my job. The Word speaks to people. I’m just the reader.
When I listen in the pew, it is not the sex of the reader that is of interest. It’s the clarity, so I can grasp the meaning and reflect upon it.
If the Church, upon direction by the Holy Spirit, decided that women lectors and acolytes were standing in the way of priestly vocations, I’d obey a directive to step down. I don’t want to, though. This ministry is really good for my soul, and from the feedback I get, others are benefiting also.
Do you also have desires to be a womyn deacon or priest for when Bergoglio permits them?
That is what happened in the Episcopal Church (among many other bad things that go right along with it). I fled from the wrath to come and was received into the Catholic Church. I do NOT want to see it go the way of the Anglicans. If that means I cannot read . . . so be it.
Inferior ministers such as lector and acolyte should echo and reinforce the priest. There is no good reason to obscure the Christ-like sign value of his maleness. Lector, acolyte, etc have always been part of the minor orders that were steps to ordination. Priests and deacons can only be men because they are conformed to Christ the Bridegroom. To feminize these ministries is monstrous because it amounts to trans-sexualism: women being invited to adopt behaviors that are intrinsically male.
As for your service as lector, I hope you will reconsider. Even Francis has spoken about what a bad idea it is to clericalize the laity. As for your reading, please keep in mind that Mass is not Bible study, notwithstanding continuing efforts to protestantize the liturgy. We do not go to Mass to get instruction or edification, except in a subsidiary, accidental way. What comes first is what we GIVE. Scripture is proclaimed as part of the Holy Sacrifice, which consists first of the Inspired Word, and second, the Incarnate Word (in the Sacrament).