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A priest, a rabbi and a Pentecostal preacher all served as
chaplains to the students of Michigan Tech in Houghton.
They would get together two or three times a week for coffee
and to talk "shop".
One day someone made the comment that preaching to people
isn't really that hard. A real challenge would be to preach
to a bear. Well, one thing led to another and before it was
over, they decided to do a 7 day experiment. They would all
go out into the woods, find a bear and preach to it. It's
now 7 days later and they're all together to discuss the
experience.
Father O'Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on
crutches, and has various bandages, goes first.
"Wellll," he says in a fine Irish brogue, "Ey wint oot into
th' wooods to fynd me a bearr. Oond when Ey fund him Ey
began to rread to him from the Baltimore Catechism. Welll,
thet bearr wanted naught to do wi' me und begun to slap me
aboot. So I quick grrabbed me holy water and, THE SAINTS BE
PRAISED, he became as gintle as a lamb. The bishop is
cooming oot next wik to give him fierst communion und
confierrmation."
Reverend Billy Bob speaks next. He's in a wheel chair, with
an arm and both legs in casts and an I.V. drip.
In his best fire and brimstone oratory he proclaims, "WELL
brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle, WE DUNK! I went
out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to him
from God's HOOOOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do
with me. I SAY NO! He wanted NOTHING to do with me. So I
took HOOOLD of him and we began to rassle. We rassled down
one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we come to a
crick. So'se I quick DUNK him and BAPTIZE his hairy soul.
An' jus like you sez, he wuz gentle as a lamb. We spent the
rest of the week in fellowship, feasting on God's HOOOOLY
word."
They both look down at the rabbi who's laying in a hospital
bed. He's in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors
running in and out of him.
The rabbi looks up and says, "Oy! You don't know what tough
is until you try to circumcise one of those creatures."
chaplains to the students of Michigan Tech in Houghton.
They would get together two or three times a week for coffee
and to talk "shop".
One day someone made the comment that preaching to people
isn't really that hard. A real challenge would be to preach
to a bear. Well, one thing led to another and before it was
over, they decided to do a 7 day experiment. They would all
go out into the woods, find a bear and preach to it. It's
now 7 days later and they're all together to discuss the
experience.
Father O'Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on
crutches, and has various bandages, goes first.
"Wellll," he says in a fine Irish brogue, "Ey wint oot into
th' wooods to fynd me a bearr. Oond when Ey fund him Ey
began to rread to him from the Baltimore Catechism. Welll,
thet bearr wanted naught to do wi' me und begun to slap me
aboot. So I quick grrabbed me holy water and, THE SAINTS BE
PRAISED, he became as gintle as a lamb. The bishop is
cooming oot next wik to give him fierst communion und
confierrmation."
Reverend Billy Bob speaks next. He's in a wheel chair, with
an arm and both legs in casts and an I.V. drip.
In his best fire and brimstone oratory he proclaims, "WELL
brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle, WE DUNK! I went
out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to him
from God's HOOOOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do
with me. I SAY NO! He wanted NOTHING to do with me. So I
took HOOOLD of him and we began to rassle. We rassled down
one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we come to a
crick. So'se I quick DUNK him and BAPTIZE his hairy soul.
An' jus like you sez, he wuz gentle as a lamb. We spent the
rest of the week in fellowship, feasting on God's HOOOOLY
word."
They both look down at the rabbi who's laying in a hospital
bed. He's in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors
running in and out of him.
The rabbi looks up and says, "Oy! You don't know what tough
is until you try to circumcise one of those creatures."
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