HINENGGEN I MAN ÅMKO' : UMAKAMO' YAN ENTIERO

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This is the LAST thing you want to see pulling up to the church if you're one of these :

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MÅLA SUETTE YANGGEN FINAKCHA'I MÅTAI YAN UMAKAMO' GI GIMA'YU'US
It's bad luck for a funeral and a wedding to meet each other at church.

TRUE STORY

This didn't happen when I was a priest, but when I was an altar boy (tanores).

As often happens in a bigger parish, both a wedding and a funeral have to be scheduled the same Saturday.  This one Saturday, the deceased was scheduled to arrive at the church at 1pm for the funeral Mass.  A wedding was scheduled for 11am and not earlier because the kids from Eskuelan Påle' needed to use the church from 9 to 10.  But if the wedding starts at 11, there should be no problem, right?

Well, the bride was late!  Very late.  She came to the church close to 12 noon.  The priest had to preach a short sermon.  Even with that, it was already 12:45 and communion was just finishing up.  There was still the floral presentation to Mary.  When all was done, it was 12:53.  The priest told me to run to the entrance of the church and, if I saw the hearse coming, to run to it and hold it back.

As it turned out, the hearse, too, was late, but just by minutes.  Bride and groom got in their white limousine, and when they pulled out from the curb to the street down to the intersection, the black hearse made its right turn onto the street in front of the church.  Talk about a close one!