Has anyone fumbled while Lecturing at church?

  • Thread starter Thread starter blessedtrinity
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
So what? Didn’t Moses stutter?

Think of this…

The next time you feel like GOD can’t use you, just remember…

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem <----------------
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer…AND
Lazarus was dead!

God bless!
 
Even monks mess up from time to time. One case comes to mind, the deacon took the gospel from the wrong year. A different monk was giving the homily, and he had to preface it “in the gospel reading we were supposed to hear, Jesus said…”.

The opportunity for their fumbling is greatly amplified by the fact that the readings are chanted, instead of just read!
 
blessedtrinity said:
Hello,

While attending daily mass today I was asked to be a reader. I did not expect to read but gladly offered to assist at mass. I was a little nervous when I got to Lectern but for the most part I read well. By the end of reading I fumbled a word,it threw me off and I went back to the beginning of sentence, arghh. I got through it but felt awful when I returned to my pew.
Indeed, it was a humbling experience which I hope never to encounter if ever I have to read again. I was wondering if any of my fellow Catholic brothers and sisters have ever gone through this and if so, how did you get past the feeling a failure?

Sincerely
blessedtrinity
Click to expand...
If it helps you feel just a little bit better I’ll share my blunder.

At a diocesan youth ministry event, about 600 kids and chaperones, I proclaimed the WRONG gospel!!! This was about three months after being ordained and the priest I must say was VERY gracious; he didn’t even mention it and he connected the gospel I did read in his homily.

That was very charitable on his part.
 
Rich_C said:
I’ve never been a lector and never will be, but once in college I helped father distribute ashes on Ash Wednesay at his request.

When the first person came up, I got my line backwards and said, “Turn away from the Gospel and embrace sin!”

The whole auditorium (no chapel) laughed at me, including father. I just laughed, too. What else could I do?

I still laugh about it sometimes.
Click to expand...
I’m laughing now :rotfl:

(laughing with you, of course) 😃
 
My brain has a glitch when I read out loud: if I over prepare, I falter. It’s easier for me to read it once and just do it.

Except the name, “Melchizedek.” Trips me up every time!
 
During the Solemnity of St. Joseph; the music director forgot that there were two readings and started playing the music before the Gospel. The reader and the priest both turned to her and started waving her off. She was totally embarrassed.

Before that, there was another daily mass during a previous solemnity where the reader (who was also the cantor) forgot to read the 2nd reading and went right into singing Alleluia. Father was upset but rolled with it.
 
I have fumbled quite a few times while reading. Whenever I do the general intercessions, I always get tongue tied. I never get that way during the readings, but the general intercessions always screw me over.

One time when I was just a new reader, the other reader didn’t show up, which meant I had to read both readings. I was so nervous, and I guess I messed some stuff up because our music director “let me have it” so to speak. He tends to overreact, but I was so nervous when I had to read the next time.

Who really hasn’t fumbled while reading? I’m glad I’m not the only one!
 
I have, so that when a slip occurs, I just keep reading. Hopefully, this draws the least amount of attention to the error.
 
The only time I ever did a reading, I didn’t know the microphone was so sensitive, and my first words made me, and everyone else, I’m pretty sure, jump back. I was a Eucharistic Minister for a about a year, and I can say my hat’s off to Lectors. We know you’re human, and we admire your courage. 🙂
 
Ha, don’t worry about it. I was asked to read for a Mass in Polish shortly before the Mass started. At the time I was trying to learn the language but didn’t have a very good sense of it. So I am sure my pronunciation wasn’t perfect. Fortunately it was a weekday Mass, although there was a good amount of people there since in was Lent. Plus most of the people were aware I wasn’tt one of “them” meaning I wasn’t born in Poland.
 
EveningSkye111 said:
So what? Didn’t Moses stutter?

Think of this…

The next time you feel like GOD can’t use you, just remember…

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem <----------------
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer…AND
Lazarus was dead!

God bless!
Click to expand...
👍
 
FUMBLED??? I once skipped a whole section of the Passion!!!

:bighanky:
 
People mess up all the time. Nobody ever remembers except the person who made the mistake. 🙂
 
blessedtrinity said:
Hello,

While attending daily mass today I was asked to be a reader. I did not expect to read but gladly offered to assist at mass. I was a little nervous when I got to Lectern but for the most part I read well. By the end of reading I fumbled a word,it threw me off and I went back to the beginning of sentence, arghh. I got through it but felt awful when I returned to my pew.
Indeed, it was a humbling experience which I hope never to encounter if ever I have to read again. I was wondering if any of my fellow Catholic brothers and sisters have ever gone through this and if so, how did you get past the feeling a failure?

Sincerely
blessedtrinity
Click to expand...
One time in college I got an Old Testament reading that was just FULL of hard to pronounce names and words. I made the decision it would be best to make the reading sound nice rather than try to get each pronunciation exactly right. So I just made up pronunciations as I went! 😃

I don’t think people were any the wiser…I got assigned Old Testament a LOT after that! 😛
 
smichhertz said:
One time in college I got an Old Testament reading that was just FULL of hard to pronounce names and words. I made the decision it would be best to make the reading sound nice rather than try to get each pronunciation exactly right. So I just made up pronunciations as I went! 😃

I don’t think people were any the wiser…I got assigned Old Testament a LOT after that! 😛
Click to expand...
Great strategy. Just about no one would know the correct pronunciation, and you probably got a number of them right.

DGB
 
Oh yes, people makes errors reading, playing musical instruments, and even singing. But we all make mistakes, that’s why God made erasers on pencils 🙂 don’t worry about it I am sure people did not give it a second thought.
 
smichhertz said:
One time in college I got an Old Testament reading that was just FULL of hard to pronounce names and words. I made the decision it would be best to make the reading sound nice rather than try to get each pronunciation exactly right. So I just made up pronunciations as I went! 😃

I don’t think people were any the wiser…I got assigned Old Testament a LOT after that! 😛
Click to expand...
In a non-Catholic parish a friend of mine attended an older man was one of the regular readers. When he was doing a reading and came across a word like ‘Melchizedek’ or ‘Bethphage’ or ‘Deuteronomy’ he would just say ‘You are a priest forever in the order of -]Melchizedek/-] big word.’
 
Phemie said:
In a non-Catholic parish a friend of mine attended an older man was one of the regular readers. When he was doing a reading and came across a word like ‘Melchizedek’ or ‘Bethphage’ or ‘Deuteronomy’ he would just say ‘You are a priest forever in the order of -]Melchizedek/-] big word.’
Click to expand...
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top