Both Uses of

recite
in
Black Like Me

He made a huge sign of the cross, lowered his head and recited, again with perfect Latin diction, the Confiteor.†
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The experience of parenthood filled him with enthusiasm and he recited the endless merits of his son and drew me out to tell him of my children.†

Definitions:

(1) (recite)
to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem

or:

to say in detail -- especially a list of things
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

The noun form, recitation, normally refers to the act of reciting or to what was recited; however, much more rarely, it can refer to a session in which a teaching assistant reviews and expands on a teacher's lecture.