[Magdalen] One more liturgy post

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Possibly *ultimate* wrong reading faux pas - my son accidentally turning page and reading gospel at mom's funeral, instead of the NT  lesson. Priest quietly freaked, and the deacon (who was to have read gospel) thanked Verni's grandson for reading gospel and then he read NT lesson ( in RC church)

Lynn



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On Dec 31, 2016, at 11:30 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

I've read the wrong reading when serving as lector. Too bad it was
Pentecost, when the first reading is supposed to be "When the day of
Pentecost had come..." and, um, the actual story of Pentecost. Someone
had opened the book to the Ezekiel reading (which is provided as an
alternative for Morning Prayer parishes, which need an OT lesson), and
I figured that's what someone wanted me to read, so I read it. Sure
wish someone in the front row would have gestured and said, "Wrong
reading, Scott...read the Acts reading!"

The rector started his sermon by saying, "If you're having trouble
following the service today, you're not alone...Here's the reading
from Acts." I apologized after Mass and he said, "Oh, no problem!" But
I knew for him it was probably a huge problem...I'm sure he swore
about it at some point to someone.

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's terrible. I've had it happen, and I never pointed a finger at the reader. If it wasn't a passage I was going to preach on, I ignored it. If it was something I was using, I found a way to read the parts I needed into the sermon. Most parishes here have the readings in their bulletins, so they would notice the mistake anyway.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA