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Bishop Fulton Sheen tells the story of how when he was working in Soho, London, on Christmas morning very early he opened the church door and a young lady fell in, she had been sleeping against the church door and was almost frozen. “How did you come to be here?” the Bishop asked “I don’t know, Father” said the lady, she had gotten drunk and fallen asleep.
The Bishop told her “men drink because they like it but woman drink because they don’t like something else.” Then he asked her what she ‘didn’t like’. She replied that she didn’t like the 3 men she was dating, they were beginning to realise that she was cheating on them. He asked her name and she told him. Across the street was a large billboard with her picture on. He asked if that was her and she replied “yes, I am the leading lady in that show.” He went in and made her a cup of coffee and asked her to come back in the afternoon as he was about to begin the Mass. She said she would return as long as he promised not to ask her to go to confession. He promised “I will not ask you to go to confession”.
That afternoon she returned and they began to look at some of the church art. As they walked down the side isle they came to the confessional, on passing he pushed her into the box “I did not ask her” he said with a big grin on his face. “I always keep my promises”. The young lady made confession of her sins and returned month after month to receive communion and then she consecrated her entire life to Jesus Christ, she became a nun in London and is to this day. Sometimes a shove in the right direction is just what is needed.
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