A little Chinese and more complete English.
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"Is it a sin to gossip about others?" the woman asked the priest. "Almighty God please guide me!"
"Don't worry, please go home now, take a pillow to the roof, cut it open with a knife, and then come back to me," said the priest.
The woman got home, grabbed her pillow and knife, and climbed from the fire escape to the roof. She poked the pillow and went back to church.
"Did you pierce it with a knife?" asked the priest.
"Yes, Father."
"And then?"
"Feather," said the woman. "Feathers, there are feathers everywhere, Father
," said the Father. "Now go back and find every feather that flutters." The woman replied, "Impossible! I don't know where they have gone. ?!" The wind was blowing everywhere.
The priest said, that is gossip!
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A woman was gossiping with a friend about a man she hardly knew.I know none of you have ever done this .That night she had a dream .A great hand appeared over her and pointed down at her.She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession . She got the old parish priest,Father O'Rourke, and she told him the whole thing.
"Is gossiping a sin ?" she asked the old man.
"Was that the hand of God Almighty pointing a finger at me ?" "Should I be asking your absolution ? Father , tell me ,have I done something wrong?"
"Yes!" Father O'Rourke answered her."Yes , you ignorant, badly brouht- up female! You have borne false witness against your neighbor, you have played fast and loose with his reputation ,and you should be heartily ashamed!"
So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness.
"Not so fast !"says O'Rourke."I want you to go home,take a pillow up on your roof,cut it open with a knife,and return here to me !"
So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to the roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish prist as instructed.
"Did you gut the pillow with the kinfe?" he says.
"Yes,Father." "And what was the result ?"
"Fearhers,"she said."Feathers?"he repeated."Feathers everywhere,Father!"
"Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out on the wind !"
"Well," she said ," it can't be done." "I don't konw where they went. The wind took them all over."
"And that," said Father O'Rourke, "is gossip!"
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