Priest’s Last Place Rites
Charlie was a regular visitor at the racetrack. One afternoon he noticed an
unusual sight. Right before the first race, a Catholic Priest visited one of the
horses in the stable area and gave it a blessing. Charlie watched the horse race
very carefully, and, sure enough, the blessed horse came in first.
Charlie followed the Priest before the next race. Again, the Priest went to the
stables and blessed another horse. Charlie quickly put two dollars on that horse
and won close to fifty bucks! The Priest kept blessing horses and Charlie kept
betting on them and they won!
The last race of the day was the biggest and Charlie saw the Priest with that
horse, also! He quickly went to his bank and withdrew his life's savings of
$20,000, went back to the racetrack and put it all on that horse!
He watched the race in certain anticipation of leaving a millionaire. The horse
was last to cross the line and Charlie was dead broke! He couldn't believe what
happened so he went looking for the Priest.
He found the man and asked, "What happened to that last horse you blessed?
Because your blessing didn't work, I've lost all of my money!"
The Priest said,