Okay, this may a bit of a repost from my deviantART journal, but I thought it would be a good story to share with all of you.

"Sadly enough, I am not kidding either.

If you didn't already know, I am an altar server at my Catholic church. One of the altar server's duties is to carry a movable cross from the side of the altar to the back of the church in preparation to process back up to the altar from the back of the church. If you have never seen anything like this before it consists of a pole about 5 1/2 feet tall with a cross on top. It weighs about 10 pounds and is made of wood. On the cross there is a smaller cross with a figure of Jesus dieing on the cross.

Everything went smoothly and by the book until about three minutes before the mass. Since you aren't supposed to let the cross touch the ground I did what all other altar servers usually do; rest the cross on our shoes (I don't know why this is any better than having the cross rest on the ground, but hey, I'm not complaining). I tend to fidget quite a bit, so I was moving the cross and trying to find a point on my shoe where it wouldn't leave an impression.

The bottom of the pole slipped off of my shoe and fell to the floor. I had a firm grip on it, so it didn't fall, but only tapped.

Jesus flew.

Apparently Jesus has the ability to walk on water, but can not defy gravity.

CRASH

Oh look! There goes Jesus' arms and legs! They're now scattered around the back of the church!

I had done the impossible. I had broken Jesus.

So I'm standing there with a dumb look on my face holding the cross while Eucharistic Ministers are picking up pieces of Jesus.

Thankfully Fr. Mike wasn't upset. I think he realized that the cross was about 30 years old and most likely rotting from the inside out.

His comment was: "It's okay. It's almost Christmas! I don't think we would want to corpse of Jesus to be on the cross anyways."

The best part is when Jesus plummeted to the earth, about five people out of 100 turned around and looked to see what fell. I think everyone else was either too old to hear very well or figured it was just the church beginning to cave in on us.

I really don't think that I will be getting a January serving schedule."

From: http://krazykat5216.deviantart.com/journal/