I was not going to post today (a quiet day) until this evening's Liturgy. Our second reading from Paul contains one of those terrible hurdles to any lector - the word that can easily trip you up. We all know a few of the famous ones: the Hebrew Scriptures describing the "flaming brazier" that comes out a "flaming brassiere" ... or Paul's letter to the Philippians that is read as the letter to the Philippines ... or in this neck of the woods the letter to the Galatians coming out as the letter to the Gallatins (Albert Gallatin was the first Secretary of the Treasury for the U.S. who lived in SW PA - we had banks & school districts named Gallatin). Tonight was the reminder that the body was not made for immorality ... which came out "not made for immortality". A big difference!
Our lector tonight caught it the second time around in the reading, and smiled. It happens to the best. And the thing is, you can't alert the lector to what might happen, because that is when it actually does. God has a great sense of humor.
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