This fuck up was actually about 8 months ago, but still makes me cringe every time I tell someone about it.

Some background: I am an atheist, and even in my childhood my family was never religious. My now ex-boyfriends family is Ukrainian Catholic.

Fast forward to my boyfriend at the time's grandmother's funeral. In a Catholic church, of course. The lady was always very nice to me, so of course it was a sad occasion. My boyfriend was a pallbearer, so he was at the front, and I was stuck sitting next to my boyfriend's sister's. They were distraught, obviously.

Now, Ukrainian Catholic funerals are confusing as hell to us atheist's (pun not intended). All of the sitting down, standing up and repeating unintelligible words is hard to follow. I had no idea what was going on 90% of the time. That's where the fuck up comes in.

The priest guy asks everyone to make a line, so he could bless people or something. He then says that if you don't want to eat the bread of Christ to put each hand on the opposite shoulder, making an "X" across your body. I really didn't want to get blessed, but didn't want to offend any of his family by conspicuously staying in my seat while everyone else was in line.

When it comes to my turn, I am rather flustered, but make sure to make a definite "X" with my arms across my chest. I was looking down, and not making eye contact with the priest. All of a sudden I feel a papery tasting wafer being shoved between my lips. WTF. I had no idea what to do. I chewed, I swallowed, then I sat back down.

I'm definitely going to hell.
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I had to get blessed, so I made a "X" with my arms across my chest. The priest shoved
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This fuck up was actually about 8 months ago, but still makes me cringe every time I tell someone about it.

Some background: I am an atheist, and even in my childhood my family was never religious. My now ex-boyfriends family is Ukrainian Catholic.

Fast forward to my boyfriend at the time's grandmother's funeral. In a Catholic church, of course. The lady was always very nice to me, so of course it was a sad occasion. My boyfriend was a pallbearer, so he was at the front, and I was stuck sitting next to my boyfriend's sister's. They were distraught, obviously.

Now, Ukrainian Catholic funerals are confusing as hell to us atheist's (pun not intended). All of the sitting down, standing up and repeating unintelligible words is hard to follow. I had no idea what was going on 90% of the time. That's where the fuck up comes in.

The priest guy asks everyone to make a line, so he could bless people or something. He then says that if you don't want to eat the bread of Christ to put each hand on the opposite shoulder, making an "X" across your body. I really didn't want to get blessed, but didn't want to offend any of his family by conspicuously staying in my seat while everyone else was in line.

When it comes to my turn, I am rather flustered, but make sure to make a definite "X" with my arms across my chest. I was looking down, and not making eye contact with the priest. All of a sudden I feel a papery tasting wafer being shoved between my lips. WTF. I had no idea what to do. I chewed, I swallowed, then I sat back down.

I'm definitely going to hell.
user
I was supposed to be blessing the bread of Christ, but I ate the body of Christ instead. I
assistant