{"id":39280,"date":"2016-12-26T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39280"},"modified":"2016-12-26T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T20:51:58","slug":"wrong-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/wrong-hail-mary.html","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/26\/asia\/tupac-hail-mary-christmas-trnd\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN reported<\/a> that a Catholic Church in Sri Lanka printed the wrong lyrics to \u201cHail Mary\u201d in the bulletin for their Christmas service. The lyrics to the Tupac song \u201cHail Mary\u201d were <i>not<\/i>\u00a0what the church intended for people to sing\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/12\/img_0368-1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/12\/img_0368-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39279\"><\/a><br>\nI have seen a <i>lot<\/i>\u00a0of church bulletins where even cursory proofreading could have prevented embarrassment. But this is by far the worst such case \u2013 and so also the most amusing.<\/p>\n<p>HT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2016\/12\/26\/a-church-in-sri-lanka-accidentally-gave-people-the-lyrics-to-tupacs-version-of-hail-mary\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"selectionBoundary_1482785209403_08028264191864243\" class=\"rangySelectionBoundary\" style=\"line-height: 0; display: none;\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reported that a Catholic Church in Sri Lanka printed the wrong lyrics to \u201cHail Mary\u201d in the bulletin for their Christmas service. The lyrics to the Tupac song \u201cHail Mary\u201d were not\u00a0what the church intended for people to sing\u2026 I have seen a lot\u00a0of church bulletins where even cursory proofreading could have prevented embarrassment. 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