I swear to you that I am not making this up! It happened two summers ago, at a Catholic Church in Massachusetts. I was there. In the middle of Mass, during the Eucharist consecration, a cell-phone went off. It was not a child or a teen, but a middle-aged woman who anwered it! She was quiet, but stood and left the pew, climbing over several kneeling worshipers and walked toward the back of the church, still talking on the phone! I was surprised that the priest didn’t say something after Mass, but he was perhaps a little involved in what he was doing.
I also believe God has a sense of humor. I’ll bet, when this woman dies, and is standing in line at The Gate, and her turn comes, St. Peter’s cell-phone is going to ring. He will motion to her to hold on a minute. “Yes, Lord, she’s in front of me now” He turns the page in his big book. “Yes, Lord, I have that. Yes, got that too. Got That. NO, I don’t have that!” as he scribbles some notations into the Book. Keep her sweating for about ten minutes! Then, as St. Peter allows her in, he hold out his hand: “NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES ALLOWED. Hand it over!”
OmqR-IV.0 about 10 years ago
Read those T&Cs!
moosemin about 10 years ago
I swear to you that I am not making this up! It happened two summers ago, at a Catholic Church in Massachusetts. I was there. In the middle of Mass, during the Eucharist consecration, a cell-phone went off. It was not a child or a teen, but a middle-aged woman who anwered it! She was quiet, but stood and left the pew, climbing over several kneeling worshipers and walked toward the back of the church, still talking on the phone! I was surprised that the priest didn’t say something after Mass, but he was perhaps a little involved in what he was doing.
I also believe God has a sense of humor. I’ll bet, when this woman dies, and is standing in line at The Gate, and her turn comes, St. Peter’s cell-phone is going to ring. He will motion to her to hold on a minute. “Yes, Lord, she’s in front of me now” He turns the page in his big book. “Yes, Lord, I have that. Yes, got that too. Got That. NO, I don’t have that!” as he scribbles some notations into the Book. Keep her sweating for about ten minutes! Then, as St. Peter allows her in, he hold out his hand: “NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES ALLOWED. Hand it over!”