EASTER  EVENT

For several years we would travel to Spartanburg, South Carolina at Easter time to visit with good friends.  During our visits, we would accompany our friends to Easter Mass at a local Catholic Church.

On special occasions, a certain elderly priest usually gave a rather long-winded homily, exhorting parishioners to emulate Jesus and his teachings.  Said parishioners dreaded these times because the priest would drone on and on; but as good Catholics, they would suffer through 45 minute sermons that seemed to go on forever.

At a recent Easter mass, the church was crowded with people who had fortified themselves with a lot of black coffee in order to help them through the forthcoming sermon ordeal.

When the time came, the priest got up to the lectern, glanced at the audience, smiled, said loudly: "HE'S BACK!", and sat down, his homily over,

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