Mass Bloopers

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One Saturday, we had a wedding at the Cathedral. It occured during the anticipated Sunday Vigil Mass. The bride was a former beauty queen. Everything was going well until it was her turn to process down the aisle. Our rector was behind her. All of a sudden, as she was walking down the aisle, her train fell off. :eek:

The trainbearers stopper her and the cantor went on with several verses of the hymn while the wedding coordinator and the rector helped get the train back into place. It was funny. 😃
 
One time at Mass, Fr. had just finished and looked toward the deacon for him to say “The Mass has ended, go in peace”, but the deacon hesitated and looked really disappointed and said it in a very disgruntled manner. Then Fr. spoke up and said, jokingly
" Catholic guilt is horrible- Deacon _______(i don’t know his name) gave a wonderful homily at the 8 am Mass today, so I asked him to read it again at the 10:15 and he very kindly did so". Everyone was laughing when he said the Catholic guilt thing.
 
One day I was in Mass with my son, who was three years old at the time. A lady came in late and tried to slip quietly into the pew a couple of rows in front of us. My son pointed her out to everyone and called out “Mummy, that lady forgot to genuflect!” :o
 
When I lived in Tennessee, we had a very new priest, first couple of weeks at our church(and probably of his priesthood), and during the Eucharistic Prayer, he grabbed the Chalice instead of the Bread, started consecrating it, paused…“I guess i should probably start with they Body right?”, set the Chalice down and started over
 
Once during Father’s homily he started out with the disappearing penny trick, unfortunately instead of the penny staying on the back of his hand it flew halfway across the stage. (we have Mass in a school auditorium on Sundays)

And my favorite, when our altar server went to ring the bells, the bells detatched themselves from the handle and rolled off the stage, while the altar server yelled “WHAT THE…!!!” (luckily he stopped there instead of finishing the sentence.)🙂
 
I know it’s an urban myth, but the story of Helen Hunt seems apropos.

Helen stayed after Mass to say a few prayers. Upon leaving she found a purse left in a nearby pew with $200 cash and no identification. She informed the pastor who next week at Mass duly announced:
“If anyone left a purse at Mass last week with $200 in it, they could go to Helen Hunt for it.”

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SenorSalsa said:
When I lived in Tennessee, we had a very new priest, first couple of weeks at our church(and probably of his priesthood), and during the Eucharistic Prayer, he grabbed the Chalice instead of the Bread, started consecrating it, paused…“I guess i should probably start with they Body right?”, set the Chalice down and started over
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Once during the Offertory, the new associate priest at my parish said, “Blessed are You, Lord God of all creation. Through your goodness, we have this wine to offer . . .” while he was holding the paten with the host.
 
Several years ago, we went to a nearby parish where a very new priest was saying Mass. We were asked to bring up the Offertory gifts (dh, myself and two daughters) and agreed to to do. When the time came, we processed up, and Father took the gifts from three of us, and then headed back to the altar, leaving my husband still holding the wine and the rest of us waiting, sure he would return. He didn’t, and didn’t notice us for a good while. Finally, dh stepped forward and Father looked up, startled, and then embarrassed. My two daughters were, as teenagers can be, mortified to be the focus of attention. I bet Father (who is a very, very good priest, now in his mid-30s) never did that again!
 
johnnykins said:
I know it’s an urban myth, but the story of Helen Hunt seems apropos.

Helen stayed after Mass to say a few prayers. Upon leaving she found a purse left in a nearby pew with $200 cash and no identification. She informed the pastor who next week at Mass duly announced:
“If anyone left a purse at Mass last week with $200 in it, they could go to Helen Hunt for it.”

🙂
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Made more sense once I said it out loud. :rolleyes:
 
One priest told us the story about how when he was first learning to speak Spanish, he was sent to Mexico where he proceeded to give a homily about the good shepherd searching for the lost sheep. And how he left the other sheep to find the one that was lost.

Well, Father was talking about sheep–“borregos” (not the correct translation for the verse, but that IS a word for sheep), but instead he managed to come up with “borrachos”.

“Borrachos” means “drunks”… so Father told them about the good shepherd leaving all the other drunks to search for the lost drunk (and bringing him back on his shoulders in triumph, no doubt!)

Later on he wondered why half the congregation sat looking either mortified or furious while the other half was roaring with laughter!
 
bluerose said:
One priest told us the story about how when he was first learning to speak Spanish, he was sent to Mexico where he proceeded to give a homily about the good shepherd searching for the lost sheep. And how he left the other sheep to find the one that was lost.

Well, Father was talking about sheep–“borregos” (not the correct translation for the verse, but that IS a word for sheep), but instead he managed to come up with “borrachos”.

“Borrachos” means “drunks”… so Father told them about the good shepherd leaving all the other drunks to search for the lost drunk (and bringing him back on his shoulders in triumph, no doubt!)

Later on he wondered why half the congregation sat looking either mortified or furious while the other half was roaring with laughter!
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This parable just seems doomed to fail in Spanish, i think this is the second or third time its been mentioned for a Blooper en espanol
 
funny thread! there’s so many so i’ll just mention the one i remember that i actually did while serving.

so during Mass i’m standing at the edge of the sanctuary. i was startled by a voice calling out my name from the front pew. apparently, the priest had already said, “Let us pray,” which means i need to bring up the Sacramentary book. i was so completely daydreaming and i think i was just staring at the sanctuary carpet. embarrassed, i gave an “oops” look and quickly brought up the Sacramentary, sweating bullets while holding it up for Father.

now the happy ending is that after Mass i apologized to Father for my blunder, and he seemed to reassure me saying that if i was so immersed in the Mass, deep in prayer, or having some kind of spiritual moment, i shouldn’t feel bad about it and it is refreshing to see a youngster so involved in a daily Mass. i felt much better, but also vowed to not do it again and pay attention!
 
there was a priest who said ‘with John Paul II, our pope’, during the intercessory prayers after consecration, then realizing it was already Benedict XVI, would correct himself. This happened during the election of B16, and happened maybe several times during that time.
 
fin said:
there was a priest who said ‘with John Paul II, our pope’, during the intercessory prayers after consecration, then realizing it was already Benedict XVI, would correct himself. This happened during the election of B16, and happened maybe several times during that time.
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i would say that’s probably the most common
 
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