Unintentionally amusing intercessions

Folks, you won't miss my updates once you've seen Brother Charles' blog. He's a Franciscan priest who's had quite a run of interesting posts, but the one that pushed me over the edge into linking to him was yesterday's about intercessions.

Explanation for non-Catholics: sometimes at Mass there are intercessions, in which someone reads off a bunch of prayer requests and the congregation responds to each one. It goes something like this:

Lector: For our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and for our bishops, that God might help them in guiding his Holy Church, we pray to the Lord.

Congregation: Lord, hear our prayer.

Lector: That the nations of the world may have the courage to work together for peace, justice and reconciliation, we pray to the Lord.

Congregation: Lord, hear our prayer.

And so on. Now go read Brother Charles' post. :)

Off topic, Linda and anyone else who wants to read a cute owl story should click here. I'd happily loan the book, but I borrowed it myself from someone else.