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Traditional Catholic Faith => Funny Stuff for Catholics => Topic started by: poche on January 05, 2014, 12:13:56 AM
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A group of nuns in Spain got a New Year surprise when they checked their answerphone machine to discover they had missed a call from the Pope, who left a message asking why they didn't pick up.
"What can the nuns be doing that stops them answering the phone?" said Pope Francis, chuckling, in the message he left on New Year's Eve for the Barefoot Carmelites of Lucena, aired on Spanish radio on Friday.
"This is Pope Francis," he went on. "I wanted to give you New Year's greetings. I'll see if I can reach you later. God bless you."
The prioress of the convent, Sister Adriana, told COPE radio station she and the four other nuns were not listening for the phone because they were busy at their midday prayers.
She said the Pope was an old friend of some of the nuns in their group, who, like him, come from Argentina.
They now run the convent in a working class suburb of Lucena, a town near Cordoba in southern Spain.
"When my duties allowed me to go to the phone, I literally wanted to die" on hearing the missed message, Adriana said.
"I took down the message and passed it on to the other nuns. We told ourselves we had just been fulfilling our duty of prayer. We never thought the Pope would remember us."
She frantically called a bishop and other contacts to try and return the call to the Vatican, without success, but Francis called back and managed to talk to the nuns in the evening.
http://news.yahoo.com/nuns-spain-red-faced-missing-call-pope-201303366.html
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You better make sure you don't miss any calls, Poche!
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I used to have free message bank till I changed companies. I'll be out shopping this morning so if he rings then I'll not know.
Let's hope they gave him "What for?"
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:dancing-banana:
I hope he likes Palestrina. My phone goes to voice mail most of the day when I'm at work. The best time to call is in the evening from 8:30-10:00.
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:dancing-banana:
I hope he likes Palestrina.
You could change it to "Don't cry for me, Argentina"?
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This is when Caller ID really comes in handy.
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"Whatever could the nuns be doing?"
HOW ABOUT PRAYING?
How ridiculous!
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If I got a phone message saying, "This is Pope Francis, I just wanted to wish you a happy new year," I would assume that my son or one of his fellow priests was having a laugh at my expense.
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Hello, Bishop Fellay? This is Pope Francis. Whatever could you be doing at 10:00 AM on a Sunday that you are not answering the phone? Anyway, I was wondering exactly what you didn't understand about our "No Vacancy" sign? It's not like it was in Latin or anything. Anyway, call me back when you get a moment. Or just tweet."
And I think this guy is actually the pope. :facepalm:
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If I got a phone message saying, "This is Pope Francis, I just wanted to wish you a happy new year," I would assume that my son or one of his fellow priests was having a laugh at my expense.
He would probably say it in Spanish.