homeschoolmom Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Burnt hair smells atrocious. :x Yes. Yes, it does :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTrishaxLynnx Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Years ago, I was bowing during prayer with a candle in my hand and I burned my bangs. Burnt hair smells atrocious. :x that explains why you dont have bangs now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Once I lit a prayer candle at the church. The match fell into the plastic candle holder, but I didn't think that was a big deal and that it would just burn out, so I walked away. My mother walked by ten minutes later and noticed quite a bit of smoke rising from the candle, so she walked to it and blew it out before it spread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 My candle melted freaking fast last night!!!! Yeah I got burnt wax all over my fingers and my jeans as well. Yep I am a bad Catholic for wearing jeans to Mass but a good Catholic for telling the truth. :| But I was thinking during Mass that I am decreasing to myself but Jesus is increasing inside me. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscerningCatholic Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Lil, I love your member title... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Lil, I love your member title... Thank ya!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordsSouljah Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 My uncle is a priest and was saying the Easter Vigil a few years ago... and as he was placing the Paschal candle in it's holder, a whole lot of wax tsunamied all over his hands - enough for him to shake off like when you come out of a pool... we asked him later why he didn't yell in pain... he just said, 'I didn't feel anything. I think it's cause priests have special powers!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlySunshine Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hand sanitizer removes permanent marker from anything laminated/white boards. So does rubbing alcohol. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PadrePioOfPietrelcino Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 People who leave sharpies near white boards deserve to be beaten with sticks. :| This is a great example of why I love my Pham. How quickly a topic about an oops with the Thurible degenerates into calls for violence against those who place sharpies in inappropriate locations. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 The priest and the (ancient, definitely at least 65, probably closer to 70) altar server were having a terrible time getting the Paschal Candle to stay in it's holder. I was worried it would fall out and snap on the ground the entire Mass. Had the opposite problem during our Easter Vigil. Was a glorious, reverent, wonderful Vigil! When it came time for the priest to dip the candle into the Easter Water, he tried to lift it out.... once, twice, three times. The second priest and altar servers tried holding down the candle holder... still no candle comes out. Then about 5 strong Knights of Columbus went up and did a combined effort to hold down the holder and up the candle... which with great effort FINALLY budged... with the sound of a giant CHAMPAGNE CORK!!! Everyone broke out in joyful Easter laughter.... it was not at all disrespectful... it was pure joy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJon16 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 One our hand-towels in our sacristy is all burnt and stuff. It was during the middle of Mass, and I was lighting a new coal to put in the thurible and the towel was hanging on the wall right behind the counter, and it caught on fire. The other servers out on the altar saw me panic, throw a ball of flame on the ground and then stomp on it...all during the Prayers of the Faithful. They couldn't stop laughing. Father P. never saw it, and so far he hasn't caught on that even it happened.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I once nearly burned down a German dorm. If that's of any interest here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I once nearly burned down a German dorm. If that's of any interest here... :popcorn: Yes. Yes, it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 (edited) :popcorn: Yes. Yes, it is. Well... It was Shavuos (Jewish Pentecost), and I was a student in Germany, living in what we called the "Auslaenderghetto" (foreigners' ghetto), a group of five 20-or-so-story dormitory towers. I lit the usual yom tov candle (candle lit so you'll have a flame on a Jewish holiday, when it's forbidden to light a new fire, but permissible to transfer fire) just before the holiday began, set it on a piece of tin foil atop a little European-size refrigerator in my dorm room, and went to bed. Around 6 am I awoke to pounding on my door, and when I opened my eyes, all I saw was a thick grey cloud with little flecks of black flying about in it. It took a few seconds for it to register that it was smoke. When it did, I jumped out of bed and threw open the window, then ran to the door and threw that open too. My Christian hallmate stood there looking shocked and concerned. He'd seen smoke billowing from beneath my door. He came in and, when the smoke had finally cleared, we observed the source of the fire: The candle had dripped down to the foil, off the foil, onto the plastic of the refrigerator, burned straight through the plastic into the insulation, and straight through the insulation into the little freezer compartment at the top of the refrigerator. Those little black flecks floating around in the big grey cloud: refrigerator insulation. If it'd have happened earlier in the night, I'd have died from smoke inhalation and been burnt to a crisp, and that whole 20-story building full of foreigners... EDIT: That refrigerator still worked. THAT'S SOME FINE GERMAN CRAFTSMANSHIP!!! Edited April 2, 2013 by curiousing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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