Ever See Anyone Mess Up At Mass

[cimlog]

ok i was at this Spanish mass down in TX with BLAZEr. It was near the end of mass, priest was giving anoucnements etc and the reader's cell phone goes off in her purse (which was with her at the alter.) If thats not bad enough, the reader answers the phone and starts talking. Ugh, ill never get Texans.

UGH. That is outrageous. Unbelievable.

[Norseman82]

Somebody told me a story that the PRIEST's cell phone started ringing during mass!! (It was by accident, and the priest flung it out the door).

My parish priest and I are plotting a little skit to demonstrate how rude it is to let cell phones go off during mass. If we ever do it, I'll post it.

[cimlog]

Very sly idea. Can't believe that happened.

[Aloysius]

one time i saw the Christ in the Holy Eucharist dropped by a giggling little girl, She picked Him up and consumed Him, but it was still annoying. after Mass i went over to the place where she had dropped Him and kissed the sacred ground on which He had fallen, and this one kid, he's kewl, but a freshman but definitely faithful, came and asked me why i did that. i explained i had seen someone drop the Sacred Host there and i didn't know exactly where but that was as close as i could remember, and he was like "it doesn't matter, it's just symbolic"

i was like ready to beat him to a pulp!!! WHAT DID HE JUST SAY ABOUT MY LORD'S SACRED BODY??? then, i realized he meant the kiss was merely symbolic, and i felt dumb. lol :cool:

[Birgitta Noel]

LOL these are all too funny.

I have a number of them, but I'll just share this one for now. One Sunday Fr. Bernie (while concelebrating with another priest or two) decided to sing a few parts of the Mass that weren't usually sung at our parish....I was standing next to him listening to the priests trying to get it together and then the parish trying to get it right. It was amusing, but then for the last verse Fr. intoned, "Oh my God I shouldn't have tried to sing this" and I don't think the parishioners knew what he said because they sang "Aaaaammmmeeeeeennn" quite seriously. I looked up and not a one of them had even cracked a smile.... :cool:

[cimlog]

was like ready to beat him to a pulp!!! WHAT DID HE JUST SAY ABOUT MY LORD'S SACRED BODY??? then, i realized he meant the kiss was merely symbolic, and i felt dumb. lol 

Good thing you thought before you acted. When I was reading your story Al I was fuming when he mentioned His body as symbolic. But then I read on and now know that the freshman was talking about the kiss.

[Norseman82]

and I don't think the parishioners knew what he said because they sang "Aaaaammmmeeeeeennn" quite seriously.

That is TOO FUNNY, partly because many Catholics at mass have a "Pavlov's dog" conditioning for responses, and when they are not paying close attention, they respond when they really aren't supposed to (like in the second readings when teh words "Amen" or "Through Christ our Lord" are said in the middle of the readings, some in the congregation will automatcally blurt out almost pre-programmed responses).

[Birgitta Noel]

LOL, that's a good way to describe it! It's true! And it's funny, sometimes when I'm at mass and it's just Father and I, I'm like, am I supposed to respond now? Or I'll wonder if I'm supposed to actually be responding or if I'm just used to thinking along with the Priest during his part! LOL, that would be too funny if I inadvertantly started concelebrating!

Actually the other night Fr. got completely lost in the midst of the consecration ( it was really late!) and he look at the chalice in midair, looked at the sacramentary, back at the chalice again and was totally silent. Then, the woman next to me who is something like 80-85 years old started saying the words for him without even thinking. It was soooo funny. Afterwards we told her that we were going to tell the prior that she was trying to concelebrate!