Alastair Sim credited as playing...
Father Perfect
- Father Perfect: I think I've made a discovery since I took on this job as cook/housekeeper. The crisis in the church today has very little to do with the power of the magisterium and everything to do with the priests therein. You see, I've been remembering the war years, you know, spam, dried egg, dried milk, reconstituted potatoes, but what an abundance of spirituality, Michael - symphony concerts, Shakespeare's plays touring all over the place, lunchtime recitals, poetry readings and the converts flock to us, simply flock to us. So you see, whilst there's no sophistication regarding the stomach, there's every sophistication regarding the spirit and the soul.
- Father Perfect: Does the flock bring you back many holiday presents?
- Father Daley: Only highly religious ones.
- Father Perfect: Oh no - surely not?
- Father Daley: Benedictine, chartreuse, Lachrymae Christi...
- Father Perfect: Oh, that sort of highly religious, eh?
- Father Daley: What *are* we going to do about a housekeeper?
- Father Perfect: Well now, I think that a nice bright cheerful young person, young lady, about the place, would be exactly the right answer. Yes.
- Father Daley: Well there's only one thing about that - how are we going to find her?
- Father Perfect: The power of prayer, Michael, the power of prayer. If it is the Lord's Will, I'm sure he will provide.
- Father Daley: We had mystery in those days, don't you think?
- Father Perfect: Mystery? Of course you're right, my dear boy. It was the mystery. Father wears long woolly pants, they thought, and he likes his drop of tipple, but all the same - he's not like other men. He can do the magical act. We were, as it were, poised between the human and the divine.