1. We are such a small parish that the whole congregation can share the kiss of peace without much interruption to the service. At one Nativity Liturgy a few years ago I started to greet somebody with \\"Christ is born!\\" When we realized that we had already greeted each other a few minutes before. Giving him a second hug I said, \\"Oh well, Christ is still born.\\" Oops.
2. Our current priest does a few things differently from our former priest. One of those is knocking on the doors of the church with the staff Pascha night. The sub-deacon enlisted one of the parishioners to stay inside the church and answer the knocks with \\"Who is the King of Glory\\", but he misspoke. Our hapless hero dutifully called out three times, \\"Who is the King of God?\\" We kept thinking/hoping he\'d catch his mistake, but he never did. And each time he said it, we laughed harder.
3. A new convert from another parish was sharing with me that he showed up for one of the Lenten services to find that the choir director and all the other choir members were late. Apparently the priest didn\'t notice and started the service. This new convert was totally panicked. He knew he should reply with something but had no idea what. His mind was completely free of any liturgical music. All he could think of was \\"Desperado, why don\'t you come to your senses...\\" Thankfully somebody behind the iconostasis eventually gave him a cue.
4. And from my protestant days: our church bulletin reminded us to make an appointment with the photographer so that we could all be included in the church \\"pectorial directory.\\"
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