| Once a week, Father Russell would come in for "Heavy Mystery" time. |
| And you'd save all your
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| weird questions for Father Russell. |
| In fact, you'd make up strange questions. |
| You'd take a whole
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| week thinking up trick questions for Father Russell. |
| "Hey, hey, hey Father! Hey, uh, if God is all-
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| powerful, can he make a rock so big that he himself can't lift it? |
| HA, HA, HEEEEEY! |
| WE GOT HIM
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| NOW! |
| AH, HA, HA!"
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| Or else you'd take a very simple sin and surround it with the most bizarre circumstances you could imagine...
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| to try to, y'know, relieve the guilt in the sin. |
| We'd usually end
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| up with the, uh, statement, "Would that then be a sin then, Father?"
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| Like, here, this is an example. |
| There was one sin- not receiving communion during Easter time.
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| You had to perform your "Easter duty". |
| You had to receive once between Ash Wednesday and
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| Pentecost Sunday and if you didn't do it, it was a mortal sin. |
| Provided, of course, you had said to
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| yourself, "Hey, I'm not gonna do it this year!" |
| And, uh, there weren't many mortal sins on that,
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| but a lot of guys went to Venial(?) City on Easter duty and so you would ask the priest y'know,
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| you'd..."Hey, Father, hey, uh.." Remember guys would leave their hand up after they got called
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| on, right? |
| And the priest would say, "What are you, the Statue of Liberty, Dunn?" |
| "Oh, sorry
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| Father. |
| Anyways, Father. |
| Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty...and it's Pentecost
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| Sunday...the last day...and you're on a ship at sea...and the chaplain goes into a coma...but you
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| wanted to receive. |
| And then it's Monday, too late...but then you cross the International Date
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| Line!" "Yes, I'm sure God will take that into account. |
| Sit down, Woozie." ..." |