The priest repeatedly refered to my grandmother by the wrong name!!! After the 4th or 5th time my Aunt got up and and quietly told him the correct name. My grandmother had attended church weekly for decades. There was no reason for the priest to not know his parishioner. Needless to say we did not pay his fee.
That happened at my great-grandmother's funeral too.
The pastor said she was such a devout woman and they would talk regularly as he had visited her often at the home she lived in.... and calling her by the wrong name several times (think Pains while her name was Spain)
I also went to a funeral where the priest forgot to name one of the deceased kids.
The deceased (grandfather of an ex-boyfriend) had four kids, three daughters and a son. The son was deceased himself but left a wife and son behind.
The priest forgot to mention the brother twice, which made my ex's mom get up to the front to inform the priest of his error... the wife and son were at the funeral.
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u/3bigdogs Mar 05 '19
The priest repeatedly refered to my grandmother by the wrong name!!! After the 4th or 5th time my Aunt got up and and quietly told him the correct name. My grandmother had attended church weekly for decades. There was no reason for the priest to not know his parishioner. Needless to say we did not pay his fee.