Sightly embarassing goof

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Yesterday at mass, I sat on the second row of one of the sections of chairs. We’re temporarily having mass in our gym while our church undergoes renovation. Well, typically, the folks who sit in the back in the bleacher seats (yes, we’re having to use bleacher seats for overflow) line up and receive first before those in the front rows. Well, for some reason yesterday, the EMHC administered the host to the lone occupant of the first row and then the usher signaled for me to get up and receive. Well, the EMHC was only a step away from my chair and I was confused as to why the other folks weren’t going before me. In all this confusion, I jumped up, briefly bowed, placed my hands correctly for reception as she presented the host, then sorta reached out and snatched it from her as she went to place it in my hands. The EMHC looked at me strangely and I’m sure I turned 15 shades of red! Poor thing was probably worried she’d just given communion to a non-Catholic or something. Oh well, I didn’t drop anything but man, I was more than a little embarrassed.😛
 
Don’t feel too bad. One time, I was sitting in the first row, in the center aisle. Right in front of the priest and the whole congregation pretty much. Anyways, I had some mosquito that kept buzzing around my face. I suppose I got so annoyed I forgot where I was, so when it flew in front of my face, I took both of my hands and clapped them together to kill it. Well, it was very loud and I am pretty sure everyone in line receiving communion, including the priest stopped to stare at me. Maybe they thought I was just really excited about praying? I don’t know, but it was rather awkward to say the least.
 
LOL! I have had more than one occassion of total embarassment!! Last Sunday, we took my mom to mass with us like we do every Mother’s Day. We were one of the last ones to receive but I kind of oversee her now as her eyes aren’t the best, so the priest is motioning to me to come forward into his line as he was “empty” …being obedient I went to his line and then tried to jump back into hers to help her back to pew, almost ran into someone else, etc., etc. I just mark it up to the Lord giving us a small lesson in humility.😃
 
Coincidentally, I had been praying for more humility that week. Trust me, The Lord DOES have a sense of humor.
 
My cell phone once rang when i was Lectoring. As he started his sermon our pastor looked at me and asked if that was a call from God.
 
estesbob said:
My cell phone once rang when i was Lectoring. As he started his sermon our pastor looked at me and asked if that was a call from God.
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Okay, you just got me laughing out loud and that’s hard to do from just reading something on the internet. Congratulations and thanks! 🙂 :cool: 👍

~~ the phoenix
 
The one I remember is when the priest at the end of Mass tried to say “the Mass is ended go in peace” but what came out was “the *** is mended go in peace”.
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Don’t feel bad at all. We all goof…this is what happened to me…

I have just started going to the Latin Mass where you must recieve on the tongue…and when I go to the NO Mass I receive in the hand…you can imagine how strange I looked last week when I went up the Communion line at the NO mass with my hands outstretched and my tongue out. The EMHC…familiar with me as a daily Mass goer…put it in my hand…I thought I was going to die…😊

:heart:Blyss
 
When I first went to a weekday Mass I was unfamiliar with the procedure of two lines forming to receive Communion from one priest. When I exited the pew to get in line I became confused and got in the wrong line. That confused the person behind me who stopped to let me get back in the correct line. By the time I caught on to where I was supposed to be both lines had stopped and everyone was staring at me, including the priest. 😊

Months later I saw another poor new person about to make the same mistake and I quietly explained the procedure to her.
 
Being a convert magnifies the embarrassment for me.😃 I felt like the EMHC was thinking “What is the Baptist doing?”😛
 
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