A reader writes:

Since so many of us experienced the "immortality" gaffe this weekend, how about a thread on the worst gaffes ever heard at Mass?  My own nominee is one my mom and I heard during the reading of the sacrifice of Issac by Abraham:  "he held aloft the flaming…brassiere."

Well, there was the time a reader announced a reading from Paul’s letter to the Filipinos.

And then there was the time *I*, as a lector in college read "prostrate" as "prostate." Yeah. 

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