Lars and Melissa were married at All Saint's Episcopal, the church where they serve champagne for communion. That is where we went for the Easter Service. There were two priests serving today and they achieved an almost simultaneous popping of two corks. It definitely gives a celebrative feel.
Father Bonnie was the preacher and she's very energetic. Toward the end of the sermon as she was winding toward a dramatic finish some clod's cell phone, with a very loud ring tone, went off. The culprit was seated in the third row on the pulpit side. It just seems so unnecessary and extremely insensitive. Why can't people at least silence them before church? No wonder concert halls have taken to making announcements about turning them off. In fact, at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, they project a message on the front wall, "Please silence your cell phone." And, the very worst part of it was that it was my cell phone. :( Who was calling? Someone who wanted to trade tractors.
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I am glad to see that we are all human.
just so you know, the champagne only comes out for celebratory services, namely: weddings, baptisms and Easter
It was this clod's cell phone that rang in the long, quiet pause as the lights went down, just before candlelighting and singing "Silent Night", during a Christmas Eve service at Grace...a wrong number...I was mortified, and my family was more mortified...I hardly ever get calls on my cell phone...why, oh why, on that particular night at that particular time?? I was glad to read that I'm not the only clod who sometimes forgets to scroll to 'silence'.
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