A reader sent me a link to a forum discussing liturgical bloopers with some pretty funny stories. Fr. Hamilton at Catholic Ragemonkey posted one his own last month.
I posted before on my own blooper before a Mass.
Well actually this wasn’t the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me at Church. Once before Mass I was praying at an altar rail before the Blessed Sacrament. Some time had passed and my legs fell asleep. When I got up I started to fall and grabbed the top of the altar rail to stabilize myself. The rail was covered in marble and where I grabbed wasn’t very secure since about a three foot section of marble came off and I fell backwards and had that section of altar rail laying on top of me. People made sure I was alright and pulled that section off of me.
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I don’t want to seem insensitive, but that was pretty funny!
God bless.
Mine was falling asleep at a Sunday Mass just as it was beginning. It was a novus ordo Mass in a very small suburban Church here, and I’d just come off a double-shift on nightwork. Father teasingly said “I haven’t even started yet, and there’s already someone falling asleep!”, a comment that made me cringe in my seat and wish for invisibility.
He later came up to me and apologised after Mass; he only remembered I was on rotating shifts as soon as he’d said it…
Oh, at a Solemn sung Mass, I also once dropped a live coal from the thurible (it was a 5 chain monster that was longer than I was tall) they had onto the Sanctuary carpet… I vowed never to be a thurifer again.