I have heard your call, a friend of mine is always sending jokes, some are actually funny. I will attach one each week as a teaser to get you to read the bulletin.
An Irish Miracle
"Lindsay Murphy drops some buttered toast on the kitchen floor. It lands butter-side-up. He looks at what he has done in astonishment, for he knows it's a law of nature that buttered toast always falls butter-down. So he rushes round to the presbytery to fetch the priest. He tells the priest that he thinks a miracle has happened round at his house.
He won't say what it is but wants Fr Flannigan to see it with his own eyes. He brings Fr Flannigan into the kitchen and asks him what he sees on the floor. "Well Lindsay," says the priest, "it's pretty obvious what we have here. Someone dropped some buttered toast, and then for some reason flipped it over so that the butter was on top."
"No , Father, I dropped it and it landed like that."
"Well," Fr Flannigan says, "it's certainly a natural law of the universe that dropped toast never falls butter side up. But it's not for me to say it's a miracle. I'll report the matter to the bishop, and have him send people round, to interview you, take photos, etc."
An investigation of some rigor is conducted, not only by priests of the archdiocese, but by scientists sent from the Curia in Rome . The final ruling is a negative, however. It reads: "It was certainly an extraordinary event that occurred in Lindsay’s house, quite outside the normal run of the phenomena. Yet we have to be very cautious before ruling any happening miraculous, ruling out all possible natural explanations.
In this case we have declared no miracle.
For it possibly resulted from Murphy having buttered the toast on the wrong side."
