Murphy stunned everybody when he confirmed up at Mass one Sunday. The priest almost dropped his hymnal — Murphy had by no means set foot in church earlier than!
After the service, the priest caught up with him.
“Murphy,” he mentioned, “I’m so glad you got here. What introduced you in in the present day?”
Murphy scratched his head. “Effectively, Father, I’ll be sincere. I misplaced my favourite hat some time again. I remembered that McGlynn has one identical to it, and he involves church each week. I figured he’d go away it within the again throughout Mass, so I got here with a plan to quietly take it after Communion.”
The priest raised an eyebrow. “However you didn’t take it. What modified your thoughts?”
Murphy smiled. “Your sermon on the Ten Commandments.”
The priest’s eyes welled up. “Ah, so once I spoke about ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal,’ you had a change of coronary heart?”
Murphy chuckled. “Not precisely, Father. If you acquired to ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery’… I all of a sudden remembered the place I left my hat.”
