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Offline forlorn

Funny misunderstandings you had about the faith/prayers as a kid
« on: January 03, 2019, 10:06:27 AM »
Just whatever funny little stories you have.

For me, when I was about 4 or 5 first saying the Our Father, I thought it was "Our Father who AREN'T in Heaven" and taught we were talking about our dads or something
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Offline 1st Mansion Tenant

Re: Funny misunderstandings you had about the faith/prayers as a kid
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2019, 11:37:06 AM »
For some unfathomable reason when I was small I would strain to make out the words the priest would say as he gave communion.  Through the Latin and his thick Irish brogue  I thought that I heard him repeat again and again "Take all y'all want". I thought whatever he was giving them must not be very good, because each person only took one. 
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Offline Nadir

Re: Funny misunderstandings you had about the faith/prayers as a kid
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2019, 02:59:13 PM »
Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant on January 03, 2019, 11:37:06 AM
For some unfathomable reason when I was small I would strain to make out the words the priest would say as he gave communion.  Through the Latin and his thick Irish brogue  I thought that I heard him repeat again and again "Take all y'all want". I thought whatever he was giving them must not be very good, because each person only took one.
Hilarious!
A priest at my school catechism class explained that some children think: So did Joseph take Mary and the Child Jesus and flea into Egypt?
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Offline Jaynek

Re: Funny misunderstandings you had about the faith/prayers as a kid
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2019, 03:25:59 PM »
When I was a child I knew almost nothing about Christianity, but we sang Christmas carols at school.  I had no idea what the line in Silent Night really meant where we sang: "round yon Virgin Mother and Child"

Somehow in my mind, I connected it with the song "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain".  I figured that a "verge" was some sort of mountain and the "mother and child" were coming round it.
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Offline forlorn

Re: Funny misunderstandings you had about the faith/prayers as a kid
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2019, 04:11:36 PM »
Quote from: Jaynek on January 03, 2019, 03:25:59 PM
When I was a child I knew almost nothing about Christianity, but we sang Christmas carols at school.  I had no idea what the line in Silent Night really meant where we sang: "round yon Virgin Mother and Child"

Somehow in my mind, I connected it with the song "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain".  I figured that a "verge" was some sort of mountain and the "mother and child" were coming round it.
Crazy the amount of auto-correcting we can do when we don't recognise a word. My dad had a kid in his class who had to lead their prayers one day, and he said "Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be Thy name". The monks were not best pleased. 
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