New and Old Man

There was once an old member of a religious community who was grouchy and hard to get along with.

One time he attended a retreat which proved very effective. To show that he was thoroughly renewed after the fruitful retreat, he posted a sign ooutside his door which read: "Here lives a NEW MAN, the old man died and is buried.

But after a couple of months, his old traits started surfacing again. So somebody wrote below the sign on his door: "On the third day, the old man rose from the dead!"


Source: from Bel San Luis, SVD