There was an amusing story on the Reader’s Digest website from a woman named Patricia Nihill who said that she was raised in an Irish Catholic family with a strict father, charming mother, and eight siblings. She said that during Lent, it was common practice for their parish priest to visit their grade school classrooms to help them understand this religious observance.

Father Lynch visited her youngest brother Danny’s first-grade class and asked, “Why did Jesus die on the cross?”

Her brother was first to raise his hand. His answer, “Because his dad told him he had to.”