{"id":1465,"date":"2009-11-11T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/stupid-things-on-any-given-sunday-2\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:51:51","slug":"stupid-things-on-any-given-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/stupid-things-on-any-given-sunday-2.html","title":{"rendered":"stupid things on any given Sunday&#8230;"},"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>\u2026 last week before mass announcements were made; Father had enough!<\/p>\n<p>He was demanding reverent silence from his congregation before and after mass! He was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! He didn\u2019t even want to hear the kneelers slamming up and down because it disturbed the prayerful atmoshpere during mass.   <\/p>\n<p>Then he proceed to step away from the ambo and direct the contemporary music band to start a rousing rock-n-roll rendition of \u201cOur God is an Awesome God\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>I had to stifle my laughter and wonder when the liturgical mosh pit was being instituted. 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