tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post7001031985894961527..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Have mercy on them O Lord!Richard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-52651644323026283202012-07-19T12:56:02.016+01:002012-07-19T12:56:02.016+01:00They installed mobile phone spammers in our Church...They installed mobile phone spammers in our Church to curtail repeat offenders and those with deficient memory...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439614087264567341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-3763673693312409002012-07-18T14:16:13.320+01:002012-07-18T14:16:13.320+01:00It happened at my local O.F. Mass during homily!!!...It happened at my local O.F. Mass during homily!!!!!<br />My phone has been on silent ever since. <br /><br />Reason of call?<br />My son to say " It's a boy"! <br /><br />P.S.<br />That Priest is nominated for canonization by my husband and I anyway, he raises the bar certainly, which may irritate a few parishioners but we think he is " The Biz". When one has been in the desert one appreciates pure spring water without flavourings or spirits added, don't you think?momangelicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982875216331629413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-31766955928944000562012-07-18T04:10:55.561+01:002012-07-18T04:10:55.561+01:00One Mass I was at, the phone rang right at the Con...One Mass I was at, the phone rang right at the Consecration, playing Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus. I wasn't sure whether to be angry or amused or inspired!amsjJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064642864816383471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-65727713798107710242012-07-17T18:04:01.004+01:002012-07-17T18:04:01.004+01:00What shall I say of the eejit doing the reading at...What shall I say of the eejit doing the reading at mass a couple of weeks ago whose mobile received a text alert?<br /><br />Oops...sorry!Patriciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906131174326742939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-10928427398642905062012-07-17T15:34:41.768+01:002012-07-17T15:34:41.768+01:00Thank you Dylan and thank you Malvenu.....even I w...Thank you Dylan and thank you Malvenu.....even I would not be so cruel.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-84231694150025795442012-07-17T11:46:04.763+01:002012-07-17T11:46:04.763+01:00Did you not think, after the third time, that you ...Did you not think, after the third time, that you should have stopped phoning her? ;-)Malvenuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03400254883645309815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-74351074232618495252012-07-17T11:22:15.192+01:002012-07-17T11:22:15.192+01:00Thank you, Richard! A post that made me experience...Thank you, Richard! A post that made me experience a whole range of emotions! LOL.<br /><br />Phones go off in London churches all the time - OF and EF Masses! I have noticed, though, that this tends not to happen if one of the servers / sacristans comes out beforehand and asks everyone to switch off their phones (as if we were at the cinema - where, needless to say, I am yet to hear a phone go off!). I went to St James's Spanish Place on Sunday and one of the servers there came out before Mass to instruct the congregation on how to receive communion and also to ask us (twice) to make sure all our phones were "off or on silent". Within seconds there was a cacophony of rings, buzzes, bells and bleeps, as everyone duly switched off their mobiles (which, I assume, they would otherwise have just left on) - it sounded like an orchestra before a concert, but this time in reverse! The result: a silent, reverent, and undisturbed Mass with hardly, if any, distractions. I once suggested to a priest friend that there should be a new ritual in the Roman Rite, the 'pre-Mass switching off of the mobile phone' - LOL.A Reluctant Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133283710220978097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-36885829764373491342012-07-17T10:45:59.692+01:002012-07-17T10:45:59.692+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Mobile Phoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15513711558335240177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-71514354367821902612012-07-17T09:25:02.930+01:002012-07-17T09:25:02.930+01:00Excellent Mac....not your PP I guess?Excellent Mac....not your PP I guess?Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-1894891436569877642012-07-17T09:01:27.537+01:002012-07-17T09:01:27.537+01:00Then there is the story of the priest who called o...Then there is the story of the priest who called out from the pulpit: "Go ahead, answer it! Ask them why they aren't here at Mass!"Mulier Fortishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186202810919174492noreply@blogger.com