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I like to start with something funny.

I heard about this man.

He was the only Protestant in a large Catholic neighborhood.

Every Friday during Lent,

while his neighbors were eating cold fish,

he was in his backyard grilling a steak.

They couldn't stand the temptation

and decided to try to convert him to Catholicism.

He finally agreed.

A priest came over, sprinkled water on his head,

said, you were born a Baptist,

you were raised a Baptist, but now you're a Catholic.

The next year on the first Friday of Lent,

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