CLARICE: I never, never in my life have I seen people that just were so excited! And the priest says, “Does anybody want the blessing?” Well if you’re Catholic you know what that means. “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost” and you go home! And I said, “They’re fixin’ to conclude.” Nobody came up! Of course, they knew the only person there that needed to come up was me and my husband!
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: [laughs] So George, who’s the savior of the Catholic Church, he says, “Oh, these poor Protestant people! They don’t know how to get the blessing and they’re going to embarrass the priest!” See God will let you believe whatever you need to believe!
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: Turn to your neighbor and say, “We’ve not been this way before!”
Audience: We’ve not been this way before! [laughing]
CLARICE: So we’re coming to the place where he says, “Doesn’t anybody want the Holy Spirit?” And George says, “When I was confirmed the Bishop slapped me and said, ëReceive the Holy Ghost!’”
Audience: [laughter]
CLARICE: And I said, “That’s not what he’s talkin’ about!” And he said, “What?” I said, “They’re going to give away a bird!”
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: This is where you say, “We have not been this way before!”
Audience: Whooo! Whooo! Hoo – hoo – hoo – hoo! [laughing]
CLARICE: I said, “At any moment they’re going to say, ëLook under your seat and who has 777? They win the bird!’”
Audience: [more laughter]
CLARICE: And George said, “Well we’ve got to go up cause nobody’s goin’ up!” But then I said, “Now when I was in a Baptist church we used to walk the aisle and it meant something!” You know every week I got saved! You know?
Audience: [laughter]
CLARICE: I’d dedicate and rededicate and dedicate and rededicate! And I never knew when it was going to take! But see –
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: Get saved on Sunday, get lost on Monday! But you know –
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: Sunday’s comin’! Praise God! [laughs] So I know some of you’all relate to that story. But here it is. We’re going to come to the front. George says, “We’re goin’ up to the front and show ‘em how to do it!” So I mean everybody is, “Dinner is comin’!”
Audience: [laughing]
