Ave Maria

Ave Maria

A soldier went to a priest and said, “Father, I need your ‘elp. I’ve got two girls at ‘ome, Maria and Susan, and I can’t decide which one to marry. What can I do?”

The priest replied, “Well, there’s nothing that I can say except advise you to go and pray.”

So the soldier went off, only to return to the priest half an hour later, jubilant. “Father, it worked. I went into the church and knelt down and prayed, and when I looked up, right in front of my eyes were the words, ‘ave Maria’, so I’ve written to Maria and told ‘er I’ll marry ‘er on my next leave, and I’ve given Susan the brush-off.”