The Most Embarrassing Things To Happen In Church | The Catholic Talk Show

hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the catholic talk show today we're going to be letting loose on some of the most embarrassing and crazy stories we've seen in the church yeah we're going to share all the things that have happened to us that made us cringe at the time that are pretty funny now so this is going to be a fun episode and we've got a special guest pappy the pig [Music] all right we gotta have some stories for you guys today that are gonna kind of give you a little intimate look in some of the most embarrassing and and crazy moments of our faith journey uh and i can't wait to see who's gonna go first well before the show even started sheila has been bursting at the seams to share one of these stories so i've got so many good ones i know i i want to start with sheila i think he should start out the show but before we do i just want to say we want to hear from you guys too so any funny and embarrassing experiences that you've had in church we want to see in our in our feeds on our social media channels we're on twitter facebook and instagram we want to hear from you guys this is just a wonderful way to be lighthearted and to share more of the humorous side of church all right so i'm like you know this is no order you know but okay so i was my brother-in-law's confirmation sponsor right and my wife was also converting at the time too so we're going through confirmations about you know seven years ago and it's the um good friday right and on the good friday we go over to the school across the parking lot from the church and you have like a prayer session and then you process a cross with a really large cross right from the church across the from the school across the parking lot to the church they go do the stations of the cross so and then you have all these papers with you too because you had to like fill out some papers or whatever so then we get single file it's very solid it's very quiet and everyone's very focused on the passion and we're going over to to for the first time for a lot of these people do the stations of the cross so we we come out of the room where the the confirmation classes happen we walked on the hallway and my brother-in-law my confirmation sponsors carrying this cross it's probably about six feet tall made out of wood right and we get down the hallway and we go towards the front door to walk out and as he's walking through the door he doesn't account for the fact that you know he's now seven feet taller than he was and tries to go through the door and just smashes the cross on the door and it falls over oh my goodness okay and if you've ever been in a situation where you're not supposed to laugh and things are supposed to be serious so me and my wife kelly we're looking at this we're like oh oh my gosh and we're like you know they're trying not to laugh okay those are the worst okay oh my gosh so we're trying to keep it together yeah all right and it's cold out right it's ohio you know right before easter it's cold so we're walking across the thing that my brother-in-law he's still carrying the cross and we're getting about halfway through and then he drops all of his papers and there's like 60 papers okay so at this point me and kelly can barely hold it together we're trying so hard to not laugh and my brother-in-law's like a fantastic guy and he's such a great sweet guy and then so we're like running around stomping on these papers to collect more and we're supposed to be processing solemnly candles and crops to do the station and it's total chaos so then we start walking to the church and he didn't learn his lesson and he hit the cross going in again oh my goodness and that was it that was a straw that broke the kale's back so then and me and kelly are just dying of laughter so we're going and doing the stations the cross and we're we're laughing so hard we're crying and then like people are coming around and we're like they're putting our hands down like we're crying in piety but we were laughing so hard at this i don't know if i've ever laughed but i've if i've ever left harder it's just in different ways that was so funny i mean it's just such chaotic goofy stuff it's so funny i'd be like this i've got my head inside my shirt convulsing yes not able to breathe well that's how me and kelly were we're just like [Laughter] they're the most inappropriate embarrassing moments but they are some of the best laughs yeah especially when you're in a solemn space oh it's the worst yeah that's a good one what do you got so i've had i've had a couple of experiences like that so you know the genealogy of matthew right so we are celebrating the 450th anniversary of the founding of uh of saint augustine and i'm so honored and and blessed that i was selected to do the sunrise mass for all of the service people you know so and and i just absolutely love the sunrise masses at the rustic altar if you've never been to mission nombre de dios it's the first successful mission in the united states of america 1565. and um so you know suffice it to say like i call up you know a few of the seminarians to um you know to serve and then i ask father tetla who's our buddy who was the vocations director when you came in um and was i was one of his last vocations um i said you know father tello can you read the gospel what is the gospel of the genealogy so he starts he starts reading you know these names you know perez became the father of hezron hezron the father of ram ram and this is like early in the morning and he's not an early morning person so you could just see that he's like starting to struggle with some of the some of the names of ram the father of a minute dab and a minute dab and he gets down to he gets down to rahab and boaz and the and shatil and and the way he says shateel i mean i like lost it dude so like it's like all these people and it's like really like a solemn solemnity the 450th anniversary so i'm like i grip my hands and i close my eyes i put my head down and i'm like i'm starting to convulse a little bit and then and then and i have billy cramer and and uh billy cramer was a seminary and he like elbows me in the side because you're standing next to me he was castig in surplus and he's like get it together get it together rich get together which made me laugh even more so now i just like turned my back and now i'm looking at the sunrise and he's still going up with the genealogy and i'm losing it and then billy starts laughing so now both of us are laughing i'm like convulsing like 450 450th anniversary of this at the rustic altar outside oh my gosh that was one of those types of experiences i'm sure it's not going to surprise you i was on the other side of that being laughed at it by a whole parish so it was like uh uh it was uh the mat it was the christmas eve mass i was back from being a seminarian i never served in mass i mean i did but it was pretty basic stuff you know at the altar wine but you know they bring out all the incense for christmas and everything and so okay delacrosse you know you're gonna be on the thoroughfare i'm like what's that you know like that's the thing you know you're swinging with the smoke and everything just just listen we'll tell you what to do like all right so i get in there and there's like okay so he's going to go up and read the gospel and he's going to ask for the thoroughfare you give it to him he's going to incense it and then then you just go back to your seat i was like okay that's easy they didn't throw in there when he was gonna ask for it so i i go up behind father john legaza and i mean this place is packed and this is my parish so i recognize these people you know and so i'm sitting there and i'm like okay it's go time you know i just don't mess this up right you know so i get the thurford we got all the smoke in it and everything you know and he walks up and i'm processing behind him and he goes the lord be with you and also with you and i'm like he must have forgot so i turned around and i started walking away well he's got to like do like it you know reading from the holy gospel according to luke and then incense then come back and do it so i'm i'm walking around i'm walking away and father park's just like what are you doing he just does his hands like this like what are you doing get up there i'm like you know i'm like talking to him so now look i'm facing one or two people at this time right yeah i didn't see what happened behind me i didn't see father john turn around so he turned around looking for the incense and you were just walking away so he he turns around obviously and i'm not there and he probably gave a look to everybody but everybody in the in the pews when i turned around i'm like i messed up and my eyes were like this i'm like looking at you you know deer in headlights with a thoroughfare like oh and as soon as i turn around i look at him and he's like come here like that and i'm like oh okay and then i look beyond him and the whole parish is cracking up oh my god the whole parish is cracking up so i was like on the other side of that thing that was like definitely i mean i was like sweating funny but uh i luckily i had some friends in the front row that were like winking at me like dude you're all right man just i was the um godfather to my my brother's daughter and i go to the baptism you know nice baptism whatever and you know normal and we get to the you know the actual baptism part and they're like okay priest goes look here's your only job right i hope you can handle it hold this candle you know the baptismal candle hold the candle you know it's lit i'm holding it and i look away for some reason and i drop it in a broke oh no no he's like that was your only job i said that was your only job and my family my family's merciless right they are brutal and they're like sounds so bad i felt like such an idiot dude i've got i've got two one one third floor and one uh baptism okay so i've got i've got a great family here the hermann family and uh i think you've met kyle and john um and their little one jack jack so it's his baptism he's a little bit older so he's you know he's aware he's like three or four years old at the time and um so i go to hand him the baptismal can instead of the godparent like he was aware i said receive the light of christ and he grabs a hold of it and then he goes he received the light because i baptized him in the context of the daily mass because he's a daily mass attendant like he goes to mass every single day he's like my little sacristan he opens up the vault he pulls out stuff and the relics he knows saint faustina by name he kisses this is you know saint faustina really he's a really cool kid but when he blew that out it was so everybody just died died so then i said i lit the candle again and i'm handing it and i said do not blow out the candle don't blow out the light of christ i said receive the light of christ and then he goes and then his mom just goes i was the best buddy now my third first story real quick um father tetlow's brother died mike and we we're doing this at st paul's because mike worked at st paul's he was a quadruple league one of the most inspiring guys in all of jacksonville you remember him just a phenomenal guy so there's a ton of people showing up a ton of priests and father bill he you know he was not into incense at all so when i asked the sacristan i said you know do you guys have a thoroughfare and a thoroughball and uh she's like no i don't think so we could look and they found one it was really old i said oh that'll work that'll be fine it was one of those single chain ones you know from the 60s or the 70s yeah that we have to do that movie yeah so i we we throw in some coals and i i light them up and now i've got to get the coals burning hot so i'm i'm spinning it outside like the thing broke and happened and it flew down and and just intended the church but no it was just outside of the sacristy and it was so good though because father tetler was so nervous it was just a nervous laugh and we were just laughing hysterically that the bread that this broke so then when he was incensing the casket of his brother he had a little and it change became a funny moment which mikey would have loved you know his brother mike would have just loved it but he's sitting there with a little incentive oh buddy oh my gosh [Laughter] you gotta check you gotta check your notes so i got one uh body's looking my my daughter was being confirmed and as part of this they take all the kids downtown to see the cathedral and to learn about it you know they take them through the stations across they show them you know the relics and the cathedral they show them the resurrection chapel where all the bishops of cleveland are buried and everything and it's a really nice thing they explain all the statues a lot of great statues in there well you know we're going down there and i was you know drinking coffee or something on the way there and we're going through the [Laughter] we're going through the the tour and i'm like oh man my stomach's bubbling right oh boy i got a four alarm poop on deck okay and i know i'm like i i gotta sneak away i i've never pooped in church before i i don't know it's a good thing like i don't know a lot of people have bathrooms right i mean then you know i'm 39 years old you know you poop at home you know it's like that's what you do so i'm like okay well what do i do i gotta i gotta fight i don't know where the bathrooms are here and i don't wanna like poop too close to everyone that's embarrassing so i'm looking around i can't find anything and then i see in the narthex there's like a stairway i'm like and i look down there and i look down the stairs and it says restrooms i'm like oh sweet so i go downstairs you know very slowly because i mean at this point it's mission critical like there's like if you commit to a path and you fail you're gonna have to deal with the consequences right this is my one chance for it to happen and i see a restroom and i'm like okay this is great so i go downstairs and i i take a right you know and i see the bathroom i'm like okay it's open i walk in okay and i start going to the bathroom and i look and none of the stalls have doors on them oh no no the stalls have doors on them i'm like but if i turn around and try to walk back up the stairs i'm gonna straight poop myself so i'm like okay well i just gotta commit to this right and i look out the door and it's like out of commission the bathroom's closed for like renovation oh my goodness so like real quick i tested it you know it works i'm like okay great but there's no doors and there's no stall doors either oh man i'm like this is a big gamble right you're pooping right out in the open any locks on the door no there's no doors there isn't locks cause there's no doors there's no door on the actual door going in and those stall doors and it's out of commission yeah no privacy but it's either this or poop myself i don't have choice i'd definitely do what you did you have to right i mean just in good propriety you want to poop your pants good propriety so i'm i commit to the to the deed and then i hear oh gosh and the trooper's walking down the stairs oh my god [Laughter] oh my and i'm like no no no no no no no no please god no no well i'm like oh my gosh what i do i'm like okay i'm trying to be quiet trying to hurry up [Laughter] [Music] but it wasn't it was a bunch of service guys and they walked right past the bathroom and i'm i'm like like like this is like hiding my shame like like adam after the fall but i got away with the scot-free but then i come back and i mean this is like a 15-minute expedition right to try to find something somewhere to go and my daughter's like where have you been and why do you look so disheveled i'm like sweating my hair is all messed up she's like the thing is almost over i'm like sorry talk about it later we'll talk about it later that was terrifying but looking back it was it was like like a seinfeld episode of hilarious yeah that's incredible yeah okay so this is a seminary another seminary one because i spent some time there um so he says it like san quentin we had a minor seminary in a major seminary and i was in the minor seminary and over the course of the year we got to know the major seminary we played against them in basketball the brothers were brothers with the ones in our seminary so it was pretty close we're pretty close because we weren't very far away and we did a lot of things together and um on campus they had these like really ugly metal statues i mean i'm talking like just yeah they are they are ugly i don't know if they're still there anymore i think they are so uh i won't mention any names i don't want to convict anybody of this but so a couple of seminarians get together like 10 and say hey we should put these things in the back of a u-haul truck drive it up to the major seminar and just scatter them all over them so we wake up at like two in the morning the the u-haul is out there on the street away from the seminary we jump the fence we drive up there and we scatter all these like horrendous and and and this seminary the major seminary is wide open like it's just like you could put these anywhere and it just looks like awesome so um so we're thinking like okay they're going to see them we're going to go pick them back up and take them back right right so well we we didn't really look at the calendar because the um the morning of the the incident uh they were actually having like all the bishops from florida and they were not very happy oh my so so there's a lot of finger pointing and stuff going on and uh yeah so that was like the incident of the statues in the seminary which is legend i mean is it really it's totally it's totally legit people still talk about that still to this day another another legendary de la crosse seminary story which is pretty funny and embarrassing is i won't mention the professor but he's one of the more monotone boring professors at the seminary and he's teaching he's not there anymore okay we're okay but he's still you know he still lives he still lives the man still lives he still lives on his dignitaries but he's he's you know he's giving instruction and he's writing you know points on the board and you know a lot of the seminarians are kind of zoned out and they're like you know dozing a little bit i think systematic theology or something like you know a couple of the guys up front are paying attention and taking notes feverishly but then you hear in the back of the room [Music] to which this professor stops writing and then looks behind like are you serious did somebody just actually say that and then he turns back and he just continues writing on the board [Music] oh my gosh who does that another one is sister lavoy god rest herself she's probably no she's still with us her sister her older sister died oh my gosh but i love her to death man she is one of the sweetheart and she's also kind of midwestern firm yeah you know yeah and i don't know she was probably in her late 70s when i was there yeah she's probably definitely in her 70s and she was the music uh professor or whatever you want to call it and uh and so she she was charged with teaching all the seminarians how to sing the mass and all you know all the musical side of the thing did you all ever do the bell choir with her no thank god we did there were some laughs there too yeah so you know i'm like i'm going to her for the first time this is at the major seminary yeah and uh i think uh bishop toops and a lot of the guys have forgiven me for the statue incident all the others the culpability was spread out but uh so i go see sister and i'm like hey how you doing you know nice to meet you she's like here's what we're gonna do and i was like hey listen i don't you know i don't want to tell you how to do your job i really can't see so you know and then she with this like really firm face and this uh you know i don't know gnarly finger our gnarly finger she sticks it right in front of my face and she goes there's not one seminarian that's been through this seminary in the 10 years or whatever it was that i was there that hasn't been able to sing the mask beautifully so you let me do my job and i'm like okay we got off on the wrong foot that's absurd so then i actually had a meeting with my uh dr raza who's my formation advisor i'm like i think i pissed her off you know like i think i pissed her off she's no no no no just go back do what she says and i'm like okay okay so i go back in there the next time i think i had some little homework and i come back in there and she's like all right here here's what you're gonna do she started these singing exercises so we started going through it and she thought i was like joking and i'm like no this is how i sing you know like she's like no no no this this this i'm like and then she's like come back tomorrow let me think about this so i come back in and i'm like i really think she's got a plan for me to learn how to sing you know i'm like i'm getting excited yeah because she was thinking like okay she's just like trying to figure out how to do this and maybe she can help me so i get there and she's like here's what we're gonna do there's a big base underneath the basement of the church i need you to go get that and bring this in every day i'm sorry no no no no singing the mass so i went i told everybody i'm like yeah i think she's like yeah i'm not singing the mass you know i'm not not in that thing you know so the first day i'm up there with the bass you know like mike nixon and all these guys are like laughing at me they're like oh ryan's got the bass guitar no the biggest big yeah i picked that up in like a day it was really easy because you know it's it's not very difficult you know you're not playing a lot right yeah you know so yeah that was my sister's story and i i really really thought that was funny because i thought i was going to be able to sing and i still can't so your bathroom story brought up a memory for me and it was it was this is very embarrassing for me but i'm going to share it more embarrassing the better so um early morning we have a full day of like building houses for habitat for humanity and but it's like early sunrise mass um and there's a group of guys and there's always this you know like there's older people in there you know it's open it's ave maria it's open to the public too so um we're sitting in the back and the mass time comes around and father garrity didn't show up so we're waiting there and i said you know i'll i'll get up and i'll go i'll go try to find father garrity so my buddy who's now father one of my best friends i ha he was like kind of leaned over and like praying you know and i was i had to like kind of step over over him and then as i was stepping over him i let out some gas help but start to laugh and um you know when godfather garrity came back it took him a little while to forgive me dude i remember we were well we were let's not mention names again but we were i was in the seminary with my vocation director at the time and uh he's like hey let's go pray uh the office you know because we pray the office in the seminary and i'm like yeah sure i haven't played the office let's go so we're sitting next to each other and there's probably about 10 or 12 guys in there you know we're sitting up on the side and we got the office of readings open up and he's holding it and so i'm reading his stanza he's reading his stanza i'm reading his stanza he's right and the book slowly just starts going like this and i'm like and then i follow his arm back and he's he's sleeping he fell down and hit the cushion of the pew and then fell down in between was he narcoleptic yeah i don't know you must have had a rough day or something and then another story this is in the same visit another story um one of the priests from uh tampa was uh visiting and praying he might have been their vocation director and uh so he cuts his mic on and he starts talking and you know sometimes that's funny right you're just like oh you know you just don't know it's on and he'll be out here and mess with well he goes to the bathroom and and so leslie nielsen you've got i forget the guy's name from miami he he went trying to run in to go get him and somebody grabbed him he's like don't do it dude let's just let this one happen this would happen we're not gonna tell him oh my goodness gracious all right so there is no other podcast out there i think that's gonna a catholic podcast that's going to do this episode yeah that's what makes us uniquely awesomely terrible [Laughter] now to find out a little bit more about how you can get more uniquely awesome terrible stuff father rich why don't you tell them a little bit more about us definitely go 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because it goes back to a mask somebody else in this table so we were having mass in our office down in houston how are you i think you were there too right i think you were there for sure and is this the one about me yes that's you can't tell funny stories about you so i was being the altar server right and by the way i remembered all the moves and it'd been like you did 30 years i was a good alter boy but um the lacrosse was elector right and we had maybe 10 15 people you know in the conference room celebrating mass he'll give you a book and so you know ryan goes up to the first reading and he's like okay blah blah blah whatever the reading was for the day and then he he stops he looks around and he goes like this he just starts waving the bible around the room like anyone with anyone no no all right whatever and then shrug his shoulders but he doesn't say any words like he's just holding it okay and then he starts reading again and it wasn't really that dramatic and it wasn't really bad right but it was a total delacrosse right and then i started just kind of laughing a little bit to myself and i kind of put my eyes down right because i don't want to laugh during mass and i look up and father rich is doing the same thing and then he looked up and we made eye contact and it was over lost it it was over and we were laughing so hard my jaw hurt i was crying i was crying it was so bad and it went higher i think it was funny i was just trying to so yeah i can't look at father rich during a mass or and you don't know how many times we have to cut episodes because we'll have a laugh attack because that same thing happens i got a wall here yeah that's true even on remote shows where we're all like in our own area like in our own state something will be said and i'll look at shield frame and we'll look at each other like go back and if you ever see us biting our cheeks in the episode you know yeah oh for sure i don't know if i want to tell this next one now yeah i'm going to do it i want to hear it all right so this is like my conversion and uh i went on a retreat and i was kind of i mean let's just say i was like a hedonist right and so i found i was like saying augustine i found gratification and things that physically or whatever you're all about them pairs drugs and everything you know and uh so i went i mean i had reached the bottom it's another story another day but uh so anyways on this retreat they had eucharistic adoration which i knew nothing about i was like literally when they brought jesus out i'm like what is this and people are clapping and singing and whatnot and uh anyway so that night i did an hour with jesus alone and i really met him for the first time and realized that this is what i was looking for the whole time that that but but i was not satisfied you know it was insatiable all this stuff and just led me to you know darkness so i'm i'm like overridden with joy and i feel jesus right like i'm like it's a warm embrace that it's beautiful and it's mystical in in a way right because it's the first time and i'm just like wow so the next morning wake up do this do that i'm just like dang bro like i'm like talking to people like you feel that man like that's jesus dude and people are just like like if somebody did that to me right now i'd be like okay yeah this guy's special okay so yeah so uh brian uh yeah some of the names of brent holtz and some other people and so we're all sitting there in adoration and i'm walking around i'm everybody i'm just like hey you feel jesus right like you feel his presence right now right and that's not so cringy dude oh no no i just wanted to make sure i wasn't going crazy his raw fired up delacrosse i was like next level like uh just all but that's why we vibed so much making sure everybody was on the same thing yeah man well because it was so shocking to me that nobody really taught me like why don't we talk about this i wasn't an eucharistic person my parents were eucharistic certainly and you're just like what like this what you know yeah so i just wanted to make sure that like i wasn't hallucinating or something like i wasn't like you know and i went to my uh small group and i you know started doing the same thing like oh my gosh you guys like this is awesome you know yeah and uh mary buck uh mary reed now buck uh is still one of my best friends uh lee buck yeah yeah yeah okay god parents he's been on the show yeah he was the guy on our 100th episode oh my gosh yeah so he uh she was stopping me in my tracks and she's like what are you doing and i'm like i don't know man i'm just trying to make sure this is like you know everybody's just the same page yeah because i and me grow up in church we're not gonna say she's you go over there and you sit in that line you know what that is i was like what she was the line of confession i know i know you've been away from the lord you just like found him like you know like yeah so i go sit in line it's one of the cfrs and man it was the worst confession i've ever had but also the best one i don't know if that makes sense yeah because i i came back into the church but man i told this guy a lot of things and the line backed up for a while and i think i wore him out and i was just like you know and he's like hey listen you don't need to talk about all the details about this stuff you know this that let's go like a kind brother moving along yeah yeah so that was kind of like my my conversion story of and then you know after that i kept going to adoration everywhere you know i mean and i moved next door to a perpetual adoration chapel so adoration was like kind of a big deal for me and my beginning stages that was our first conversation after i gave a talk about being open to the call to the priesthood yeah which i was dating somebody at the time and yeah it was just tetlo's way to be like we need to move this guy along here yeah and you came up to me you're like yeah bro it's all about the eucharist man i'm like i like this guy and we started hanging out like all the time after that come down to flagler i just wanted to make sure it was okay to have passion about it because nobody else had it it's true you know what i mean i was just like i'm a passionate guy i'm like this is awesome yeah and i just wanted to make sure i wasn't being weird and it ended up that i was being weird but not in that way you know what i'm saying it was in a different way i was being weird in a different way yeah got any other good ones dude i've got i've got a few i'm trying to i'm trying to sort through some of them dude do you remember when we were having dinner with the mercedarians the mercenary and sisters of the blessed sacrament are some of the sweetest most holy i love those sisters so much and they invited us over for dinner me and ryan and a couple of our friends yeah we go over there and then after dinner we have really nice dinner and we're playing a card game or like like a like a i guess a card game or whatever and they're like okay write down one phrase on a piece of paper put in a hat and then everyone's going to try to guess who wrote it so you know we played some fun games yeah so like you know they start going through it's like i love jesus and like oh that was sister do you know how much he loves jesus and somebody said heaven is beautiful oh that must have been mother and then then they read electric boogaloo part two [Music] this is just like i don't know what this means that that was because i didn't know the rules well i didn't get the game either i wrote the norman conquest of england and they're like the norman conquest of england that's interesting who do you think that could be electric boogaloo part two eucharistic adoration in miami priest goes up exposes the blessed sacrament reverently knelt down praying he looked up and his you know his eye line was just above the altar and he sees this guy and he's like it's like of like three you know he's shaking you know and then he's like he's starting to watch so the priest is like is this what that so he's just kind of watching the guy and then the you know the guy goes underneath the pew comes out and he's got binoculars and he's looking like he's looking at the yeah he's looking he's looking at the blessed sacrament with binoculars so now the breeze is just like sitting there and he just has to crunch his head of miami there's a bunch of stories out in miami oh yeah you're making me think about this guy john god rest his soul he was uh he was a ward of the state had a mental illness i think it was kind of a mild schizophrenia the guy had the most general heart he used to go to um the the church downtown in jacksonville every day from immaculate conception and i met him there because he was always like fidgeting around and you know he had like kind of like the tourettes and he was just so like trans you knew what he was thinking like all the time right so we go on journeys with him and i used to take him to retreats and different things like that and i took him to a monastery in in georgia conyers georgia we went to a monastery there and and you know he's doing his own thing he's writing and doing all this stuff and walking around and fidgeting around and you know and uh and uh like he he he took like five showers a day just because he's like hey the shower they have hot water here you know like that like that was his thing so anyways we're leaving and he's like hey you know i think i'm gonna stay and i'm like uh you kind of wrote up here with us you're gonna write he's like no i'm gonna ask them to be a monk with them and i'm like i was like it doesn't work that way you know so anyways we hop in the car we go down about halfway whatever to valdosta or whatever and we stopped to get something to eat and he you know basically just gets up and leaves the thing right like leaves and he starts walking down the street we're like oh gosh what is he doing this is crazy right he comes back and literally he's like kicking dirt up and down and you know like throwing a little fit you know and he sits down and we're like john what's going on man he's like yeah i guess uh i guess god didn't want me to win the powerball this week [Laughter] so he goes from like wanted to join a monastery that went in powerball so i've got another adoration one so we did uh in persona christie retreat it was one of it was the first ones that we did we were like we had no vocations director i had this guy that i was talking to a younger guy in college and he was really discerning priesthood but he you know so i was like well you just need a retreat he's like yeah but where can i go on a retreat so i talked with a couple of other seminarians i'm like let's just throw together a retreat and you know do nocturnal adoration we'll get a couple of priests father tetla will do it and so we did that we put together this retreat and one of the pieces was nocturnal adoration but some of these guys that came on it they've never done nocturnal adorations where you go all night long in adoration so we're describing it to the guys on retreat so the guy that i was giving like semi you know help with in discernment at the time he said so can i like stay in here for a long time like can i stay in here all night i said yeah but i mean if you want to stay in and pray all night long like that's that's totally cool so i didn't think anything of it but you know morning came around six o'clock in the morning i go i go walk in homeboy was in the back of the chapel with a blanket and a pillow and sleeping he just wanted to sleep i'm like you don't sleep in the chapel you pray in the chapel you can stay here all night but you can't bring your pillow bro like you can't do that but jesus we're having a slumber party all right were you yeah i think the three of us were in the car together when one of your kids is getting baptized oh yeah so all three of us are in the car we're like we were recording a session we're like okay after this father rich was going to baptize i think it was maria maria and so we're like cool okay we got plenty of time let's stop and get a coffee and then we'll just go over to the church and do the baptism so me and ryan you know and father rich are driving around in delacrosse's truck and probably listening to rapper i'm taking their time we get to the parish like oh nobody's there nobody's there and ryan's like you know they should have been here right now he's like hey he calls up jenny's like jen where are you at and she's like ryan anthony where are you get over here everyone is here you're late we got the priest baby there's a lot of people and they're all looking there they're like that reminds me of leo this was this is one of my favorite delacroix stories is get on the phone with ryan and he's like man leo leo broke his femur man we're taking him to the hospital you know we gotta gotta get him there and then hey hold on father richie yeah could i get two chalupas a dr pepper medium i was hungry i remember i was talking to leo like on facetime he's in the hospital and you're getting chalupas having more stories about any more incrimination well my friends we want to hear from you share your embarrassing moments share funny stories from church the world needs it right we need it it's good to have a little bit of levity along the way and as we connect week to week we just want to express our deepest appreciation to all of our patrons we wouldn't be able to do the show without you so big shout out to each of you and especially to our sponsor hallo hallow is just a phenomenal app catholic meditation app it's the number one in the app store check it out today if you haven't and we'll see you next week god bless [Music] do you

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Keywords: Catholic, Catholic Podcast, Catholic Talk Show, Ryan Scheel, Ryan DellaCrosse, Father Rich Pagano, Catholic Radio, Catholic TV, Catholic Show, Mike Schmitz, Bishop Barron, Church Fail, Church Fails, Embarrassing Moments

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Length: 46min 30sec (2790 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 01 2021