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Las Vegas Casinos and Catholics

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas, but there are more Catholic churches there than casinos. Not surprisingly, some worshippers at Sunday services will give casino ! chips rather than cash when the basket is passed.
Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings. The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan Monastery for sorting and then the chips are ! taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in.
 
This is done by the chip monks.
Didn't see it comin' did ya?!?!  
-- M

-- Modified on 10/6/2005 1:18:24 PM

yes Terri I was quite surprised by that when I was in Vegas a few years ago...went to the Catholic Church next door to the Riveria.  First surprise was how packed it was; I was used to going to near-empty service here in Scottsdale.  Second surprise was the chips I saw in the collection basket.  But the funniest thing I saw was the stained-glass window just to the right of the alter.  It actually had the Vegas skyline in it!

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