Gentle Reminder to Proofread Your Ash Wednesday Worship Aids
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 660
    Avoid awkward typos and get someone else to proofread your Ash Wednesday worship aids (before printing), etc.

    Double check to make sure you are spreading ashes. Don’t be this guy…
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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,056
    Hehehehehe. Love it!
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,356
    Every Christmas we jail’d th’incarnate Deity.
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  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 660
    Every Christmas we jail’d th’incarnate Deity.


    When I was in high school one year the the VP was giving his pre-Ash Wednesday liturgy spiel in front of they entire school gathered in the gymnasium (at least 1000 people, mostly immature students) about Ash Wednesday where “we have the spreading of [not ashes]”. Yeah, maybe practice saying ashes if that’s a problem for you.

    There’s still a parish in my city that has Bach’s “Air in G String” as a listed option for wedding music despite me sending an email pointing it out.

    Also, for the sake of clarity, the aforementioned worship aid isn’t from my parish.
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  • tandrews
    Posts: 221
    Happened at Notre Dame for First Sunday of Lent one year: "Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis." There was one "n" missing.
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  • Cmanfro
    Posts: 24
    Worst I’ve seen
    Ours Were the Griefs He Bore
    typo/auto-correct:
    Ours Were the Briefs He Wore

    Yes— 100 distributed programs
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  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 660
    typo/auto-correct:
    Ours Were the Briefs He Wore

    Ah, auto-correct. So far proofreading is safe from being completely taken over by AI it seems.
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  • francis
    Posts: 11,261
    Printed, “he gathers up the ewes in his arms”
    Spoken “he gathers up the eeweez in his arms”
    (Me putting my head down and covering my face trying not to burst out laughing.)
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  • Elmar
    Posts: 519
    Auto-'corrections' in Dutch in our parish:
    Met Jezus voel je je vrijdag = With Jesus you feel free (->Friday)
    toen Hij ons een Dienaar zondag = when He sent (->Sunday) us a Servant
    The danger of hitting 'Enter' for a line break when autocorrect takes this as approving its suggestion.
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  • tandrews
    Posts: 221
    Printed: "One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off..."
    Spoken: "One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose Peter had been cut off..."
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  • AnimaVocis
    Posts: 202
    On a program for a lessons and carols a number a years ago...

    Should have read:

    "The Virgin Mary bears the Child Jesus"

    It actually read...

    " The Virgin Mary beats....."

    It was the ONLY mistake in the whole program (facepalm).
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  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,214
    I’ve shared it before, but I once heard a deacon read for Christ who said, “Into your hands, I condemn my spirit.” I almost fell over the front of the loft.
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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,056
    I always looked forward to hearing about the high priest Anus every year.
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  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 660
    The Virgin Mary beats....."

    It was the ONLY mistake in the whole program (facepalm).

    I would have just assumed you forgot the the colon. “The Virgin Mary Beats: The Child Jesus”. Sounds like a great album of Catholic easy listening music about the child Jesus.
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  • Steve QSteve Q
    Posts: 123
    I always looked forward to hearing about the high priest Anus every year.

    Those Passion readings are tough. Did you know that Simon was a Korean? And the prisoner Pilate released was Barbasol?
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  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 660
    Did you know that Simon was a Korean? And the prisoner Pilate released was Barbasol?

    I did not know that. Interesting.
  • probe
    Posts: 96
    I was told of a reader who announced 'A reading from the book of Maccabees' as 'A reading from the book of Macbeth.'
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,537
    That must have been for when they baptized babies in a cauldron.
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  • Xopheros
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    @AnimaVocis
    It actually read... "The Virgin Mary beats....."

    Now we know who inspired Max Ernst to his famous painting ;-)
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,279
    Computer generated captions for video dialogue are notorious, as in this quip from the Lord's Prayer in a broadcast liturgy: "... and lead a snot into temptation".
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  • francis
    Posts: 11,261
    Human generated caption disguised as computer generated…

    “Our righteousness is as filthy rags”

    New American Edition
    “Our righteous snots are as filthy rags”
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