Catholic Catchism Stories

Just small Catholic stories/quotes that are not very well known. Submissions/Questions welcomed!

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The Widowed Mother

A brother and sister,children of a widowed mother,had grown,secured good positions and were getting on successfully. The mother,old and feeble,was a charge and expense. They went to the superintendent of the poor farm and asked to have mother accepted as an inmate. The man agreed,but first said, "I'd like to tell you a story. Some years ago a man died in this town leaving a wife and two children. She was very poor. I went to her and advised her to put the children in an institution. She was most indignant, 'I have two hands',she exclaimed,'and before my children got to an institution,I'll wear them down to the bone.'" " What does that have to do with us?" asked the young couple. " That woman was your mother!"

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Children At a Spring

Two children went to draw water from a spring. One child brought back a great deal more water than the other. It was not because there was not enough water in the spring for both. It was because one child carried a pitcher and the other carried a drinking glass.

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Orestes Brownson

The American philosopher Orestes Brownson spent a good many years of his early life trying one religion after another. Finally he was converted to Catholicism,and his friends immediately began to say," Where will Brownson jump next?" "I have been jumping till I found something firm to stand on",was Brownson's indignant protest. "Now that my feet rest on the rock of Peter,they have found solid ground,and I am satisfied."

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Three In One

Someone once wrote: Three folds of the cloth,yet only one napkin is there; three joints in the finger,but still only one finger fair;three leaves of the shamrock,yet no more than one shamrock to wear. Frost,snowflakes,and ice,all in water their origin share,three Persons in God;to one God alone we make prayer.

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Army Official

A US army official in Austria went to a village on an inspection tour with his son. His son tells the story. The official asked a farmer when Mass was to be celebrated on weekdays. He said seven. The official,a man of 62years,was around at six and attended Mass and received Holy Communion. After Mass a large group of people met him at the door and an old farmer took his hand with emotion. "What happened?" the inspector asked astonished. The old farmer said, "Sir, when we farmers see that a man of your high standing and education goes to Mass on a weekday,we cannot do otherwise than say : 'Thank you God for the good example.' "

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Father Duffy,First World War

One night during the First World War,Fr.Duffy was crawling through the trenches. He came to a dying doughboy. Trying to help,he took the torn,bleeding body into his arms and whispered words of spiritual help and consolation. The boy opened his eyes and looked,somewhat startled,at the priest. "Father",he gasped,"I do not belong to your Church.". The chaplain answered, "I know,my lad,but you belong to my God."

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Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino was always considered the screens greatest lover. Twenty-five years after his death,Hollywood brought out a film called "The Valentino Story". It grossly falsified his death. The film shows Valentino,while dying,holding the hands of a married woman with whom he was supposed to have been in love with. Actually,he died kissing a small crucifix,after receiving the last sacraments. He was only 31. He died so penitently because one whom he had known when they were boys together in Italy was then a young priest attached to an Italian church in New York. The priest spent the last three days of the film stars life with him in the hospital.

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Guard Of Honor

On one of the Pacific islands,as a severe air raid began,the chaplain placed the Blessed Sacrament in a box and hid it in the ground. When the all-clear sounded and he returned to take the Blessed Sacrament back to the chapel,he found soldiers,gathered in a ring above the place where the Blessed Sacrament lay buried,kneeling in silent adoration.