Is it OK to have a silly fun thread here?
What hymns or prayers or scripture verse did you misunderstand as a child? I'll start with the oft-quoted, "Hail Mary, full of grapes, the Lord is a tree." Then there was the toddler child of a friend who came home singing, "Peter built the Church on the top of my face." When I first learned the Act of Contrition as a 6-yr. old, I thought it was, "Oh, my God, I am hardly sorry . . ." That always confused me because I thought I should have been sorrier than that.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)tjwmason
(14,819 posts)As the introduction to the Lord's Prayer - I never could understand the connection with small pets.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)My brother, when he was about 6, used to say the sign of the cross like this: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spearmint, Amen."
When my niece was 4, her version of the Hail Mary was "....and blessed is the Fruit of the Loom, Jesus."
I overheard a little girl reciting the Lord's Prayer during mass as such: "...and lead a snot into temptation, but deliver us some e-mail..."
rug
(82,333 posts)mykpart
(3,879 posts)a drunk who stumbled into an empty church one night and spotted the confessional. His eyes lit up, and he went in. The priest, who was preparing the altar, saw him and decided that this was a man who really needed confession, so he went in also. After several minutes, the priest finally said, "Son, can I help you?" And the drunk replied, "Uh, yeah. Is there any paper in there?" It's one of my favorite jokes to tell to priests.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)The bishop's phone number.
rug
(82,333 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)The bartender says, 'What is this, some kind of joke?'
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)In a religion class for small children, one child is asked, "Where does God live?" The child replies,"God lives in our bathroom."
"Why do you say that?"
"Every morning my dad stands at the door of the bathroom and shouts, 'God, are you still in there?'"
mykpart
(3,879 posts)but my son when he was 8 or 9 thought he was hilarious when we sand "How Great Thou Art," and he instead would sing, "How Great I Am." I am certain that God will want to discuss that with him someday.