Distractions at Prayer Story

Story title: Distractions At Prayer 
By: Bruno Hagspiel

     While journeying on horseback one day, St. Benedict met a farmer walking along. "You've got any easy job." said the farmer. "Why don't I become a man of prayer? Then I, too, would be travelling on horseback."
     "You think praying is easy replied the saint." If you can say one 'Out Father' without any distraction, you can have this horse."

What Is A Real Christian by Bruno Horst Bull

Story title: What is A Real Christian
by: Bruno Horst Bull

    The new pastor chose as the topic for his first sermon:"What is a real Christian?" He climaxed each point of the sermon with the same question. And sometimes he nailed it down by slamming his fist onto the pulpit. He kept asking the question without answering it, hoping that each of the  parishioners would do that personally.
    On that particular Sunday, there was a little boy attending church with his mother, and the more often he heard that unanswered question, the more unsettled and nervous he became about it. At one