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Peggy, I love it.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peggy Kern" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: God's Humor


> Oh, I dunno, Angel, we've had some pretty funny things in the Masses
> I've been at.  One time when we were at Mass and I was about 13, at
> the collection time, I heard the guy with the basket getting close to
> us.  I wanted to make sure he saw us, so for some reason I grabbed my
> blind friend's arm, in which she was holding the money she was
> supposed to put into the basket, and started waving it for the guy to
> see.  She, thinking I meant the money guy was at our pew, let go of
> the money, which fell on the floor, and the guy with the basket had
> to get down and crawl around and pick it up.  And when my sighted
> brother used to take my friend and me to Communion, he'd say it was
> like driving two sherman tanks.  When one of us would receive
> Communion, we'd poke the other one so they'd know it was their turn,
> but we'd poke so hard that the other one would practically fall
> over.  We spent half our lives giggling at these situations.  Then
> when I started to sing at Mass, the fun increased.  At one point I
> was singing a solo, and my mind went totally blank in the middle of
> the verse.  All I could do was sit there and shake with laughter
> until I could remember some words and start singing again.  Another
> time, my friend dropped her guitar on the floor during Mass.  The
> floor wasn't carpeted at the time, and it sounded like thunder!  But
> I think the funniest time of all was a few years ago when I went to
> Communion with my fellow choir members.  When we got back to our
> places, the lady I'd walked with picked up what she thought was my
> binder with my words, and handed it to me.  I opened it up, and there
> were no Braille dots!  Just smooth print pages.  I said, "This isn't
> mine," and she said, "Yes it is."  She finally realized I was right,
> probably when she picked up her music and saw a bunch of
> bumps!  Everyone standing around me in the choir was practically
> rolling on the floor with laughter;  and we were supposed to be singing! 
> <lol>
>
> Peggy
>
> At 09:32 PM 1/29/2006, you wrote:
>>Gosh, mass is boring compared to all these funny things that go on in your
>>churches.  I like reading about what goes on in these churches.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Vicki and The Rors <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:49 PM
>>Subject: Re: God's Humor
>>
>>
>> > That's funny Phil.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:43 PM
>> > Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] God's Humor
>> >
>> >
>> > > This same friend of mine, in the same building, was preaching at 
>> > > another
>> > > time and jumped off the platform to try and emphasize a point in his
>> > > message.  As he spoke, he jumped up on the first row of seats.  He
>>forgot
>> > > how low the overhead beams were and since he was pretty tall in the
>>first
>> > > place, he smacked his forehead dead center on one of the beams.  It
>> > knocked
>> > > him backwards off the seats and on to the floor.  No, dad gum it, he
>>lived
>> > > any way.
>> > >
>> > > Phil.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Jesus Is Your Problem.  Luke 12:5
>> > > www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>> > >
> 

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