[Magdalen] Hot in church tomorrow?

[Grace Cangialosi]

Interesting...I'd always heard this *very same story* told about Princess Margaret, who lost her half slip in a procession up the aisle in one of the cathedrals. Same thing: she simply stepped out of it and kept on walking, leaving it to someone else to kick it put of the way.

> On Jun 26, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/26/2016 10:38:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
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> about  how inappropriate it was to
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> "prance naked before the Blessed  Sacrament.">>>>>>>>
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> I've probably told the story that an ex-Trappist monk from the
> Gethsemane Monastery in Kentucky, USA liked to tell
> 
> A monk/priest served as deacon for the Sunday Solemn High
> Mass for the Trappist Community. 
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> During the course of his chanting the Gospel, it became obvious to
> the assembled monastic community that he had lost his underwear
> shorts.  Upon finishing, he simply stepped out of them upon  returning to 
> his seat in the sedilla.  The white shorts were quite visible on the  dark 
> stone
> floor.
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> The liturgical MC walked majestically to the shorts, and with a well
> aimed kick, booted the shorts into the sacristy, all the while making  it
> look like part of the usual Solemn High Mass Liturgy.
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> David Strang.
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