A reader writes:<\/p>\n
\n\nSince so many of us experienced the "immortality" gaffe this weekend, how about a thread on the worst gaffes ever heard at Mass? My own nominee is one my mom and I heard during the reading of the sacrifice of Issac by Abraham: "he held aloft the flaming…brassiere."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Well, there was the time a reader announced a reading from Paul’s letter to the Filipinos.<\/p>\n
And then there was the time *I*, as a lector in college read "prostrate" as "prostate." Yeah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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