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Jesus, You’re Fired! Effective Ministry in an Imperfect World

To Whom It May Concern: In agreement with the clearly delineated Diocesan norms for termination of employment, below are just a handful of the reasons we were forced to fire Jesus of Nazareth from our Parish Staff here at Our Lady of the Emptying Pews: He was never in the office. He was constantly leaving work to “go and pray.” He never turned in a single bulletin announcement. He invited all the “wrong kinds of people” into the Parish community. He turned over tables at the annual Parish