After hearing a young woman’s confession, the Catholic priest, who realised she was not one of his regular congregation, asked where she was from. He was very interested when she told him that she was an acrobat with the circus then visiting the town. In fact he was so interested that he asked her, as he was too busy to see the show, to give him a demonstration of her skills.
So she left the confession box and performed handstands in the aisle, somersaults, back flips with twists and all the tricks of her act.
Two elderly ladies were waiting to have their confessions heard and when they saw this one turned to the other and said “If that’s what Father Murphy is giving for penance, he won’t be seeing me this week!”
