SVD JOKES #29: CATHOLIC CANDIES???
Fr. Ed Fuguso, SVD shared: In my visit to Mariveles, Bataan, a religious nun from Venezuela related to me how one day, she was casually giving away candies to a group of children when one of them refused the sweet offer saying, “Sister, I am not a Catholic. I am an Aglipayan!”The nun quickly replied...
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SVD JOKES #28: FIRST TIME
This is shared to me by another SVD missionary: Together with another SVD, they were sent to a foreign country. It was both their first time to ride an international flight and confessed that they were really ignorant inside the plane.The stewardess went to them and offered, “Sir, would you like chicken...
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SVD JOKES #27: JUAN TAMAD CROCODILE
Fr. Flor Lagura, SVD shared about the story of Fr. Robert Winkler, SVD. “Fr. Winkler was a German missionary to Mindoro. In the 1940’s, Fr. Winkler had to hike from Calapan, the provincial capital, to Bulalacao, the southernmost town. A distance of roughly 200 kilometers over hills, mountains and...
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SVD JOKES #26: LOST AND FOUND
One time during our common dinner, one of the seminarians announced, “I have found a book. Those who might have lost it, please claim from me.” “What’s the title of the lost book?” Some seminarians asked. Then the announcer answered: “St. Anthony of Padua.”****I welcome contributions! Anecdotes...
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SVD JOKES #25: MABELE! MABELE!
This is from Pinoy SVD Fr. Emil Pati:“Setswana”, the language spoken in Botswana, is quieted complicated. One day, while visiting people in the fields, I scouted a group of women harvesting sorghum. Very articulately I greeted them, “Dumelang Bomme” (the usual greeting). In chorus they respond...
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SVD JOKES #24: HELP! HELP!
In one of my summer apostolates, our assistant parish priest was going to be transferred to another place. So, on his last day in the parish, the people decided that we organize a picnic in the river as our token of thanksgiving for the missionary service he had done for the parish. While in the river,...
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SVD JOKES #23: THANKS! THANKS!
When I was a postulant, I remembered very well a serious sermon from an SVD deacon which turned out to be a light moment for all of us gathered. This deacon asked us to look at the cross and try to see the letters on it aside from the INRI. Then, he himself answered that from the cross we can see the...
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