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To: jxb7076

As an aside, in Renaissance Europe, a young priest was sent to a particularly contentious Venetian church, whose penchant for brawling over slight arguments had chased away half a dozen of his predecessors.

With the congregation prepared to turn on him after his first sermon, he carefully chose as his subject “The sins of Eve”. And, somewhat disappointed, that there was nothing in the sermon suitable for a fight, for once, they had a peaceful time of things. Wait until next week.

But then, his sermon was on “The sins of Adam”. Same result. The week after that, he did a new version of “The sins of Eve”, and so on.

For 35 years, until his retirement. Back and forth between Adam and Eve, and what had been a belligerent congregation became peaceful again.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 12:26:28 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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He really backed himself against the wall. I am sure whatever he said one week had to be corrected the next week - and on and on and on!


16 posted on 06/26/2009 12:52:33 PM PDT by jxb7076
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