There was a small neighborhood nearby the local Church that was made up entirely of Catholics. One day, a Baptist man named Bob moved in. He was a very friendly person, and the Catholics had no problem at all with him. That is, until Lent.
On every Friday during Lent, as the Catholics would eat their fish and chips or tuna sandwiches, the smell of sizzling steak would rise from the grill in Bob’s backyard. Needless to say, the smell was very tempting. Finally, some of the neighbors got together to try and do something about it. They decided the most charitable thing to do would be to talk to Bob and see if they could convince him to convert to Catholicism. Seeing how genuine and kind his neighbors were, Bob decided to join the Church.
At his conversion, the priest sprinkled some holy water on Bob and said “You were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, but now you are a Catholic.” Everyone was overjoyed at his conversion, and especially at the fact that they would no longer be tempted on Fridays during Lent!
But the very next year, on the first Friday in Lent, the smell of steak began wafting through the neighborhood again. All the Catholics got together and decided it must be Bob and went over to see if he had forgotten it was Friday. They arrived just in time to see him sprinkling water over his steak and saying:
“You were born a cow, and you were raised a cow, but now you are a fish.”
Not a big fan of C b and c. I’ll have my popcorn fish with my sons. I think that those parishes should reevaluate their thoughts.