Modern Versus Traditional

Truly out of the mouth of babes. . .

Traditional version:

Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

My grandson Evan is eleven and is in Grade 6 at the local Catholic school. Last week I was driving him and his younger brother, Gibson to school when Evan looked at me and said in a serious voice, “So Grandma, our teacher asked us to update the Hail Mary, make it more ‘modern’.”

 

Not taking my eyes off the road I responded,” Really?”. He was lucky he got any response, after all it was 8:30 AM, I was concentrating on getting them to school and not in an accident and I am not a morning person. I much prefer to read and write till the wee hours of the morning. However, I digress.

 

We stopped for a school guard. You know who they are based on their neon coloured vests and their penchant for forever testing fate by jumping out in front of moving vehicles with only a over-sized paddle in their hands to stop the 2 tonne vehicle racing at them. Waiting while the street crossers made it the rest of the way down the block, I looked over at Evan, nodding at him to continue his story.

 

“Well,” he said, “first I took out all the ‘old sounding’ words like thee, thou and thy and replaced them with ‘you’….”

 

I nodded. Sounded good to me.

 

“Then I changed the word womb to uterus.”

 

I did not laugh. I couldn’t talk, but I didn’t laugh….

 

 

Evan’s modern version:

Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your uterus, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Reviews

[kimmy]

lol awe that was just to cute :) Oh and I am tongue tied as well lo..I loved this, the little boy is just to cute.

[Robert Lincoln]

That's a cute story - now try saying "fruit of your uterus" three times fast.

[Gray Witch]

Ha ha... can't, I'm tongue-tied!

[Calvin]

That is amazing.