Most persons in my hometown post WWII were 'Irish' on St Paddy's Day just as most person on Shrove Tuesday celebrate the last day before Ash Wednesday.Ībout 2005 cancel culture/critical race theory/woke industrial complex etc. Not a legal holiday in America but observed by office workers and young adults drinking age starting at lunch hour. Lent is marked by fasting, both from food and festivities.'Įxception to Lent is St Patrick's Day. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. 'Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. Punch line -In two minutes all mourners are reduced to tears when Danny Boy is sung/played.funny Irish priest says he spends an hour uplifting mourners at funeral Mass Set up - 'Danny Boy' banned from Catholic funeral Mass.USC School of Cinematic Arts teaches comedy genre that generally has 3 parts to a funny scene or joke: Usually was a dollar or two.īecause it's a joke in celebration of St Paddy's Day and Irish. Weddings uplifted my spirits when paid up to $5 as a server. OP is a compliment that is humorous to Irish, Catholics and anyone who attended or heard about an Irish wake. I was told to keep it confidential the same as deacons and sub-deacons did in those days. They were nearly the opposite of funerals for laity with jubilation for the deceased nun's soul entering heaven to be with Jesus for eternity. Nun's funerals were held during class days at a nunnery to which I was driven. Priest didn't want to train someone every year so it was a 3 year gig. When a group of kids were caught misbehaving, the tallest was singled out to blame.īy grade 6 I was center on the 8th grade basketball team and picked out to be trained to serve Solemn High feast day Masses, and, clergy and nuns' funerals. I was the tallest in my grammar school class with with 250 students in two classrooms in the late '40s reduced to 68 in the mid '50s.

Boy Banned by Sam Stevens