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one time, the deacon read the wrong gospel and the priest gets up to the pulpit for the homily and goes, "deacon george really put me on the spot this week. i guess i'll give next week's homily today and he can read the wrong readings next week so i can give today's homily and we'll be straightend out"

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I posted this last October, please enjoy again:

This is a really old thread... but I had to top all of you off.It's long, but it's worth reading... Enjoy!

When I was a senior in hs, I applied with the Archdiocese of New Orleans to be Eucharistic Minister at my high school. When I finished attending the class and I was presented with my certificate, there was a sign-up sheet for people who wanted to serve at the Cathedral. So excitedly I signed up and I told my parents and they were thrilled an so proud of me for doing so. (I had previously been going to a Protestant Church with former Catholic friends and my parents were thrilled I had renewed my faith in the Church). I recieved a phone call a day later and I was told to report to the Cathedral 30 minutes before 10am Mass to serve at the next Sunday's. So I showed up at St. Louis Cathedral on Sunday 30 min early and I was all dressed up and really anxious and excited to be a new Eucharistic Minister and also getting to personally meet the archbishop. So I waited and waited and waited and no one was in the rectory and it was like 5 min. before Mass was supposed to start and the Cathedral was jammed packed. There was a special mass that Sunday where the Archbishop was blessing the French Quarter Merchants.

I was nervously pacing b/c no one showed up to tell me what to do and then all of the sudden a deacon barged through the door and said, "are you Mike?" I said "yeah that's me." He asked me why I wasn't dressed, and i told him that I was the Eucharistic Minister, and he said that only priests and deacons are serving as Eucharistic Ministers, "you are the altar server".I had never been an altar boy growing up and I didn't know anything about being an altar boy esp. when a bishop was presiding!!! So I had to take of my coat and tie and shirt and fit into a traditional altar servers outfit, which was way too big, and run out to meet the archbishop and all the priests who were waiting for me. I forgot to grab the procession cross and I had to run back behind the Cathedral into the rectory, grab the cross, and run back out. I was all sweaty and the music had already started by the time I came back around. The archbishop was all decked out, there were two other bishops, about 4 priests, a deacon, and a sweaty altar boy with a robe dragging a train behind him. My parents who were in the front row looked at me really nervously b/c they knew I had no idea what I was doing.

Well it only got worse. Luckily the deacons handled all the bishops needs, w/ him taking of the miter and holding the crosier and all, but the real tragedy happened when it was time for the Archbishop to read to Gospel. I was told to bring him the open book, kneel on one knee in fromt of him, and stay there until the reading was over. Well the cathedra is on a raised platform in front of some tiny steps so it really looks like a throne, and when I went to kneel down, my foot caught on the back of my robe and I fell forward. I knocked the Archbishop of New Orleans off his Cathedra. A deacon caught him before he fell and another priest caught me and the entire cathedral which was jammed packed gave out a huge SIGH. I have never seen my parents look more embarrassed. To make it worse it was a televised mass and everyone made fun of me when I went to school the next day.

Plus at Ash Wednesday Mass last year an altar boy tripped and threw all the ashes on the priest - his white robe was covered from his chest to his feet, and some were on his face too. And this is really wrong but I tried so hard not to laugh, but I with all my might and concentration I couldn't help it and I started a chain reaction of laughter throughout the chapel. The kid was mortified, but the priest played it off really well :D

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Seen people mess up at Mass? Like M. SIGGA, I was one of those who messed up at Mass once! I posted this previously:

I had to be a lector for the noon Mass, and lectors were instructed to be there at least 15 minutes before Mass. Well, I left later than I should have, and by the time I got to church, parked, and entered the vestibule, there were only about 5 minutes before Mass began, so of course, there was no time to go look over the readings one last time or make sure the lectionary was turned to the right page. But I was there in time for the entrance procession. So anyway, Mass started, and everything went smoothly until the Liturgy of the Word. I got up and went to the ambo, where I noticed the lectionary wasn't turned to the correct reading (I had practiced beforehand, so I knew what the readings were). So I turned the page, but that wasn't the right reading either. So I turned another page . . . and kept turning . . . and kept turning . . . and kept turning . . . and kept turning. I was starting to feel QUITE uneasy, and since all eyes were on me, I'm sure you can imagine the feeling! My problem, you see, was that I didn't know which Sunday in ordinary time it was! Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the deacon came and whispered to me which Sunday in ordinary time it was, and I quickly found it. It turned out that I was turning in the wrong direction, but I was so flustered on account of arriving later than I should have, that I didn't think to turn the pages in the opposite direction! I was so embarrassed that I was tempted to have my name taken from the lector roster!

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I know a good one: i was at camp and while the priest was blessing the bread and wine and he forgot the words! we had to help him through that part.

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One Sunday the pastor had the mass and when it came time for the Nicene Creed he instead said the Confiteor by mistake. After mass, I jokingly asked him "New creed?" (I joke with him, as he was my English teacher in high school). He told me that I was the only one who caught it!

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just spilling the unconcecrated wine, right? not the Precious Blood! i accidently got that on my shirt once, and i didn't care how little everyone else cared i made them wash my shirt in that sink that goes into the ground!

anyway, yeah i dont have any funny stories... just a couple enraging stories :lol: :P

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Spiritual_Arsonist

I was serving Easter Vigil Mass, and Fr. had us ring the bells during the gloria. Then they fell from the wall. I have not set the church on fire YET.

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what jumprope accident? :ph34r:

My bro (who was serving) set the carpet on fire with the incesence once. A nun jumped out of the pew and started beating the heck out of the carpet that was on fire with the insence coal as the priest kept saying Mass....... :crackup:

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1) When I was a student in the seminary we were serving for the Papal Nuncio. He sat down and the friar who was serving him came with great solemnity and placed the mitre on his head. He slowly moved away to reveal a Papal Nuncio with the mitre back to front the two tails from the mitre hanging down covering his eyes!!!

2) Last week when I was saying Mass at the fraction rite, when the priest breaks the large host and places the small part in the chalice, I was a bit distracted by people still coming into church (believe it or not!)

I dropped the larger host in the chalice and placed the small fraction on the paten, was my face red.!!!

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EcceNovaFacioOmni

My Church had young children reading the readings once, and one mispronounced "Gentiles". Fill in the blanks...

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Here's another one....

We had a foreign seminarian at our parish. When he was reading the part in Revelations where it says "I hold the keys to death and the netherworld" it came out as "I hold the keys to death and the network".

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PyroPenguinX07

I was at a christmas mass and our candles are on little springs. So during communion one of the candles went flying across the altar. It was amesome!!

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cmotherofpirl

It wasn't actually a mess up on our part, but I remember during Mass the PA system started picking up radio conversations for the local airport tower.

The pilot couldn't find the runway, and said he was following the river. The tower asked him " which river", and the pilot said " you got TWO rivers?' The whole congregation cracked up.

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