A priest is walking down a lonely road on a hot day
when suddenly out of the bushes jumps a wild looking man with a gun. The man
says to the priest, “I have killed 99 men, and you will be the 100th.” The
priest says to the him, I am ready to die; but please before you shoot me, give
me a little water to drink. I am so thirsty. The murderer is confused for a
moment, and then directs the priest at gun point to his hovel in the bushes
where he gives the priest a cup of water to drink. As the priest is drinking
the water, the murderer dies of a heart attack. The angels from heaven come to
escort the soul of this murderer to heaven, but the demons contest with them.
“This man murdered 99 men and committed many other smaller sins. His soul
belongs to us.” But the angels answer the demons,” But he also did two great
deeds for the Gospel of Christ which outweigh all his sins. First he confessed
his 99 murders to a priest and second he gave water to the thirsty. No sin, no
matter how many times repeated, is greater than the mercy of God.”
–
St. Nicholai Velimirovich
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