Tuesday, March 28, 2006

belated sunday confession

(I thought of this falling asleep Sunday night, but yesterday I couldn't remember what I was going to confess.)

I love making jokes and puns out of bits & pieces of church services and daily readings. Not with any intentional disrespect, but I do tend towards fits of giggling at vespers.

Some are things that people have misheard (especially as children) and told me about, and now that part of the service can't go past without me thinking of it.

"Oh Lord save the pious" so easily becomes "Oh Lord save the papayas."

The Feast of the Enunciation.

I can't go on. You get the idea.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't attend church, neva did. I plan on tho 2 get religious and kno da Lord lol. Oh well, cyaz ;-) PEACE

11:25 AM  
Blogger s o p h i e said...

It is meat and rice to bless thee. . .
:)

1:40 PM  
Blogger MsCellania said...

How about this gem:
"On the paschal lamb we graze" (we gaze) said loudly and dramatically as I was about to sneeze. It sent my entire family and 2 rows fore and aft into fits of laughter.

9:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have embarassed myself belting out song lyrics I was SURE were right. A trillion years ago there was that Genesis or was it Phil Collins song...Invisible Touch. I heard PHYSICAL ATTRACTION which for the record it doesn't even sound like. So it goes...

11:10 PM  

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