Saturday 19 February 2011

Church humour and a caption Contest

"A Catholic woman visits her Parish Priest and asks how she goes about getting her dog a Christian funeral. The priest, throwing up his hands, tells her that Catholics don't do that sort of thing and she'll need to go and visit the Anglicans, they'd be sure to do it. The woman asks the priest if he could give her one more pice of advice, to which the priest agrees. "Do you think that £1,000 will be enough for the Anglican to do the service?" she asks.

"Why didn't you say it was a Catholic dog when we started the conversation?" asks the priest, "Of course I'll do it!

Apparently it's an ongoing joke with some Catholics at least about the church and money and so this was one of many jokes I heard regarding it and them.

Not to be outdone, an Anglican told of a church near to him which had a problem in that the new, and much needed, roof was going to to be put on hold because of bats residing in the roof space.

The Archdeacon was called out and after assessing the problem said he'd need to call the bishop as he had a solution. "What can the bishop do, "asked the incumbent. "Well," said the Archdeacon, "we will get the bishop to come and confirm the bats!"

"How on earth will that help us with our problem?" asked the befuddled incumbent.

"It's simple," replied the Archdeacon, "Once the bishop confirms them we'll never see them again!"

Seems we tell the best jokes about ourselves after all!



Here's an opportunity for a caption contest with this picture of Rowan winning a raffle prize (I think that's what it is, what about you?)

9 comments:

KeyReed said...

...so I commend the new Anglican Prayer book (to replace Common Worship), in its large print landscape format, to you as the way forward.

Anonymous said...

"A gift? For me? Oh you shouldn't have. What is it? Oh its a book. 'How to manage conflict' by Peg Pickering. Well, er that very kind of you all but why..."

Swimming Coach said...

As Rowan showed off his gift from the Ordinariate, he wondered what he was going to do with a set of Top Trumps 'Heroes of the Catholic faith' cards and wondered if they'd do for Newton's Christmas present!

Might be something out of the ordinary for the ordinary.

Ray Barnes said...

You mean I have to actually sell The Big Issue?

UKViewer said...

I actually thought that I was getting an i-pad, but this will have to do.

Simply Fred said...

As Rowan proudly showed off his Anglican Communion construction set he began to wonder how he might keep it together, there didn't appear to be any glue included!

Doug Chaplin said...

Fr Saddam Hussein presents the Archbishop with a handy escape kit for surviving hostile takeovers.

Anonymous said...

Although it was technically an answer to prayer, Rowan couldnt help thinking that the Meccano set had perhaps arrived a little too late!

Anonymous said...

Despite his attempts to divert attention from him, Rowan knew everyone had noticed that Mr Potatohead was wearing a pair of old curtains!