Serving at Mass

 Altar servers are the ones to watch out for, during the Holy Mass if one wants some holy distraction!! 

Numerous are the tales of those fortunate who get to witness the antics and blunders of those serving at Mass.  As it mostly happens, these servers are mostly children and that compounds the rate of such occurrences by a thousand! 

Remembered this morning of Bastin Thomas at Divyaddan, Nashik when he offered to Fr Vincent Vaz during the offertory, the spoon with no water in it.  Having tried to drop the water drop into the chalice and finding none Fr Vincent returned the spoon to Bastin.  This time Bastin dipped the spoon deeper into the cruet and handed it back to Fr Vincent.  Again nothing. Only then did Bastin look into the cruet  - there was absolutely no water in the cruet.  The sacristan had forgotten to pour water into it!! 

Then there was a companion of Fr Sean (way back in the late 40s at Palliskenry) serving at Mass, at the end of the offertory for the washing of the hands poured wine - instead of water - on the priests hands!!