You've got to know what you're doing around horses,
even Catholic ones!!!!
Mitch, a hard-shell Southern Baptist, loved to sneak
away to the racetrack.
One day he was there betting on the ponies and
nearly losing his shirt when
he noticed this priest who stepped out onto the
track and blessed the
forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th
race. Lo and behold,
this horse - a very long shot - won the race.
Mitch was most interested to see what the priest did
the next race. Sure
enough, he watched the priest step out onto the
tract as the 5 race horses
lined up, and placed this blessing on the forehead
of one of the horses.
Mitch made a beeline for the window and placed a
small bet on the horse.
Again, even though another long shot, the horse the
priest had blessed won
the race.
Mitch collected his winning and anxiously waited to
see which horse the
priest bestowed his blessing on for the 6th race.
The priest showed, blessed
a horse, Mitch bet on it, and it won!
Mitch was elated! As the day went on, the priest
continued blessing one of
the horses, and it always came in first. Mitch began
to pull in some serious
money, and by the last race, he knew his wildest
dreams were going to come
true. He made a quick stop at the ATM, withdrew big
money and awaited the
priest's blessing that would tell him which horse to
bet on.
True to his pattern, the priest stepped out onto the
track before the last
race and blessed the forehead, eyes, ears and hooves
of one of the horses.
Mitchell bet every cent, and watched the horse come
in dead last. Mitchell
was dumbfounded. He made his way to the track and
when he found the priest,
he demanded,
"What happened, Father? All day you blessed horses
and they won. The last
race, you blessed a horse and he lost. Now I've lost
my savings, thanks to
you!!"
The priest nodded wisely and said, "That's the
problem with you
Protestants... you can't tell the difference between
a simple blessing and
the Last Rites."
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