[Magdalen] One more liturgy post

[Marion Thompson]

One of our people reread one of the Lessons at Lessons and Carols.  
Didn't twig until it was nearly over.  Sigh.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 1/1/2017 12:30 AM, Scott Knitter 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!"
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> 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.
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> 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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