A Joke for Today. “Who are the Fallen?”

 A Joke for Today.  “Who are the Fallen?”

There’s this old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to committing adultery.

One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, “If I hear one more person confessing to committing adultery, I’ll quit!”

Well, everyone like him, so they came up with a code word.

Someone who had committed adultery would say the word, ‘Fallen.’ instead of the word adultery.

This seemed to satisfy the old priest, and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age of 92 years old.

About a week after the new priest arrived, he visited the mayor of the town because he was very concerned about something weird happening in town.

The priest said, “You have to do something about the sidewalks in this town.

When people come into the confessional, they keep talking about being, ‘fallen.’

The mayor started to laugh, realizing that no-one had told the new priest about the code word.

Before the mayor could explain about the code word, the priest shook his head and with an accusing finger at the mayor said,

“I don’t know what you are laughing about, because your wife fell down three times this week.”