What are your thoughts on the wording of a sign I saw at mass?

[Jen7]

I think someone was trying to be funny. But it completely misses the mark in print. It also misses the mark because Covid isn’t funny to most people, so they’re not expecting a joke when they read an announcement about Covid. So it really falls flat. Today at Mass the person doing announcements before Mass tried a Covid joke and it also fell flat. I think we’re all tired from Covid. It’s inconvenienced us all at best & taken friends and family at worst. I get the desire to lightening the mood… but “it’s too soon” as they say. No one is in the mood for a laugh about Covid just yet.

 

[brown_bear]

For a foreigner, the problem is almost incomprehensible, because we know the English words and expressions not without difficulty, but we often do not know that in your everyday life a sentence in itself good and holy can become offensive.

Of course, we too have our good and holy expressions that become offensive in everyday life, but many times they are not the same.

But we also have expressions that can be either holy or offensive depending on the way of saying them, or the context.

My question is: won’t this be what you say is one of those expressions and therefore tolerable?

I don’t know if I was able to explain myself …

 

[RN69]

@Magdalene You might be doing this parish a favor to let them know how their advice message could be misconstrued. Most parishes have a suggestion box that could be used to pass on this idea or If you won’t be going back there, an anonymous note signed Concerned Catholic could be mailed to the parish office. No need to be accusatory just pointing out how it might be taken inappropriately. Lots of good reasons for that are right here on this thread. Maybe some of their own parishioners feel the same way but are too close to the issue and don’t want to make waves by saying anything.

 

[Magdalene]

My question is: won’t this be what you say is one of those expressions and therefore tolerable?

I think in this case, it’s like they’re using the secular meaning of it to make a joke or a statement. So either way it seems inappropriate to me.

 

[Lara]

People lost their sense of humour before Covid.