A little Corpus Christi Humor
  • Dan McGarveyDan McGarvey
    Posts: 59
    As is tradition in our parish, our final Corpus Christi Mass ended with a Solemn Procession that makes three stops before returning to the church. The last stop was the west end of our cemetery, a clearing overlooking the fair city of Boulder, CO, where I lead a chant of the Divine Praises before ending the procession. This year, in my script-following fervor, I inadvertently started the Divine Praises before our Celebrant could present the Blessed Sacrament, and he quickly cut me off before I could go any further, although I think he was a little louder than he wanted to be.

    The net aural result to the people was this:

    Me [chanting]: "BLESSED BE GOD!"
    Priest: "NO!"
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    That's great. That's amazingly great.
  • Felicity
    Posts: 77
    It seems that the meaning and power of words has been lost in recent times.

    Had the word "STOP" been used instead of "NO", all would have been clear without creating such an unfortunate blunder.

    Deo gratias!
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    This is very funny.
  • JDE
    Posts: 588
    Yesterday I ascended to the ambo after the Epistle and got ready to sing the Sequence . . . meanwhile my organist starts to play the Alleluia. So I wave him off, and he yells out, "What?" Me: "Sequence." Him: "WHAT?" Me: SEQUENCE!

    Titters ensued, but I sang it anyway. Well . . . the short version. But at least it was in Latin.
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    In that situation, it's almost worth it to sing it in the traditional order (Sequence first, Alleluia second).
  • Mark M.Mark M.
    Posts: 632
    Matthew, isn't "traditional order" alleluia first, sequence second?

    Dan… what parish in Boulder?
  • JDE
    Posts: 588
    I wasn't about to make Father stand there while I sang even four verses of the Sequence! I was much happier to annoy the organist.

    Yes, in the EF it is Alleluia, then Sequence, I think. There's another discussion on this board about that very issue.
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    Yes I just typed it wrong...
  • Pedro d'Aquino
    Posts: 128
    Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story of the late Theodore Marier, who, while in the choir loft at Solemn Mass on the First Sunday in Advent, had just finished conducting the Kyrie when he heard the priest at the altar intone the Gloria. When the choir failed to respond, the priest repeated his intonatio: "Gloria in excelsis Deo." Finally Marier's voice echoed back from the choir loft (in the ferial tone): "In tempore Adventus 'Gloria' non di- / ci-tur!"
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    I heard Ted tell that story once! But he told it about Irvin Brogan, the long-time organist at Boston's German parish, Holy Trinity Church.
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