"Bienaventurado el que lee y escucha las palabras de esta profecía…" (Ap 1,3). La importancia de la lectura pública de la Escritura

On the occasion of the institution fo lay ministry of reader by Pope Francis, the article wants to expose the value of the proclamation of the Word of God as a means to access faith and as an effective way to consolidate the lives of believers. Firslty, this work briefly exposes the value an necessity of the human word an the word of God in the lives of the people. Next, it studies, within the context of antiquity, how the reading of sacred texts at the origins of Christiantiy was an effective means of this expansion and consolidation. It ends this modest contribution by underlining the importance of the proclamation of the word today in the Church.