superflippy's Journal: C'mon Laugh You Bastards

Our church has recently started recording the sermons on CD each Sunday. It's my job to get the CD after the service, rip the sermon to MP3, and put it up on the church web site. Nobody (other than the guy who set up the recording system) really knows how to work the CD recorder. There are hand-written instructions on it that tell which buttons to push in order to record and finalize the CD.

Apparently, some people are using the CD recorder as a regular CD player in the church. I've noticed that when I pop the sermon CD in my computer at home a random title and track listing pops up. I'm guessing that these are the title and first track from the last CD in the player. However they got there, they are burned into our original sermon CDs and can sometimes be humorous, as when the sermon was titled "The Pope on the Rosary" for a few weeks running (our church isn't Catholic). It's also kind of interesting to see what people have been listening to in the church during the week.

The best so far, however, was this week's sermon. The CD is titled "Sing You Bastards!" and the sermon track is labeled "C'mon Laugh You Bastards." I'm not sure whether the music director was trying a little tough love on the choir, or our assistant rector was looking for some new jokes for her sermon.

Of course, I change the label to something boring and appropriate before I put it online. But wouldn't it be awesome if you saw one of those signs outside a church announcing the week's sermon title that said, "C'mon Laugh You Bastards"? That would be one sermon I'd want to hear.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Ah, but we Episcopalians don't need to be awakened during the sermon anyway. It's the only part where we're not standing or kneeling, and is thus the time to get some nice shut-eye. ;-)

Though in fairness the visiting rector at my parent's church actually gives pretty interesting sermons -- not your usual blah-blah. Still not exactly Garrison Keillor, but getting there. *g*

Meanwhile the rector at the German Old Catholic* parish where we go now actually stands in our midst when giving his sermon, which ma

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[superflippy]

It's kinda funny to hear familiar Anglican hymns, but translated into German

That sounds like an interesting church. I went to a small community church in Japan and had the same experience singing traditional American hymns (Great Awakening revival tunes like "Love Lifted Me") in Japanese.

I was able to follow along with the Lord's Prayer, but they did the Apostle's Creed too fast for me to get it, and I didn't know that one from memory so I usually mumbled the Nicene.