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Fish Fry Descends into Chaos
Check out this shocking story I found online today:
Springfield – a church basement fish fry descended into chaos on April 1, 2011 when a Protestant somehow snuck in. The deception was not discovered until the pastor of Our Lady of Good Perch, Father Noah Boddy, led the gathering in the typical pre-prandial Papist prayer that begins, “Bless us, oh Lord, and these thy gifts…” and Calvin Luther slipped up and used the word “your” instead of “thy.” Worse, he pronounced the final word of the prayer “AH-men” instead of the more typical, incorrect Catholic pronunciation of “AY-men,” thus arousing the suspicion of the diners around him. When questioned about his denominational loyalties, Luther leapt over the table and tried to escape out the basement door, but he was seized by two brawny acolytes, and soon the entire basement was thrown into pandemonium. Damage incurred include a corpus separated from a crucifix, possibly by Luther, and an entire pan of Mrs. O’Malley’s homemade brownies flung at Officer Dougherty as he attempted to get things under control.
When will we ever learn?
Famous Hat
2 comments:
Now, see here! Let us not sully Holy Mother Church with false accusations about pronunciation! (There are far more serious things in the news sullying the Body of Christ anyway, sad to say.) Ay-men is not a "Catholic" pronunciation, in my recollection. It is an American Protestant pronunciation, no doubt popularized by Sidney Poitier ("Lilies of the Field") which many American Catholics somewhat mindlessly adopted as Protestant hymns were imported into Catholic hymnals en masse when we started using English in the Mass in the mid-sixties. I recall everyone saying ah-men until then, which is almost certainly closer to the Hebrew pronunciations.
Actually both pronunciations are incorrect - the first syllable should have the same vowel sound as the word "cat." :p
April Fools! (Two days late)
WV: hares - oddly appropriate for a rabbit mom like me
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