http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/who-forgot-to-turn-their-phone-off/ stories about the suburbs, church, and home Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/who-forgot-to-turn-their-phone-off/#comment-51 Mon, 28 May 2012 13:02:43 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=290#comment-51 That still doesn’t beat a certain vicar whose cell phone went off during the commendation at a funeral, and the family quipped that Mom was checking in for one last time!

]]> http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/who-forgot-to-turn-their-phone-off/#comment-44 Thu, 24 May 2012 19:36:28 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=290#comment-44 I don’t use a cell phone (to the chagrin of friends who would like to get ahold of me). But if I did, and I rang, I would *totally* play the “whose phone is that??” trick.

]]> http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/who-forgot-to-turn-their-phone-off/#comment-43 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:13:12 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=290#comment-43 Hi Heidi! Just discovered your blog and look forward to following. I, too, am a vicar of a parish in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. I’ve just passed the 10yr ordination mark. Can so relate to this post. Happened to me tonight in fact. At a Pentecost celebration dinner, as someone was reading the book of Ruth while we all ate (so monastic I loved it), when I heard almost fog like, the all familiar ringtone of my mobile. Not church bells – I’m original and have Vivaldi Four Seasons! But I learned years ago the hard way, during a worship service at college, NOT to dive for my phone!. So tonight I sat there like everyone else wondering whose phone it was! I know, low trick, but it worked. Just fyi in case you get caught like Father X.

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