ST. MEINRAD, Ind. — Braden Maher, a seminarian for the Springfield diocese, was among 22 students at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology to be received into the ministry of lector on Feb. 7 in the seminary's St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel. Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis, presided at the installation.

The ministry of lector is conferred upon those who prepare and proclaim readings from Scripture at Mass and other liturgical celebrations. A lector also may recite psalms between the readings and present the intentions for the general intercessions.