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segunda-feira, 7 de abril de 2025

Chap. 15 - To Judge

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The next day

After the prisoner's transfer

In the square...

— Good Morning!  Mr. Nestor, my father sent you this hygiene kit.

— Thank you, Joe!

— Good Morning!  I brought cake and coffee.

— Frank, tomorrow I'll bring you the snack.

— Good Morning!  Children, are you excited?  — The two answer:

— Yes, Priest!  — Pastor Elias arrives.

— Wait for me!  — Professor Judas arrives breathless.  — I also want to study.  The priest prays the study prayer and they read James chapter 4.

— Priest, is gossip a sin?

— Yes!  Talking about other people's lives and often judging him.  That's killing the other with your tongue.

— I need to confess.  I killed a lot of people.

— Confession purifies us.

— What is an adulterer?

 — One who betrays another's trust.  The husband who has a mistress.  The cleaning lady who hides the dirt under the rug.  The politician who does not defend the rights of the people.  The employee who steals from the company.  Among other examples...

— I put the dirt under the rug.  I'm an adulterer.

— Pastor, I didn't know the meaning of that word was so broad.

— Confirm on cell phone.

— Okay Searcher!  What does adulterer mean?

— Adulter comes from the verb to adulterate.  The same as: bastard, corrupt, depraved, unnatural, vice.*

— I'm an alcoholic, I'm also an adulterer.

—  Friend, you will overcome this addiction.  I believe!  — The others say:

— Me either!

— Here he asks you to clean your hands.  Is it confessing?

— Yes. In the past, a container with holy water was placed on the doors of churches.  So that people would put a little in their hands and make the sign of the cross.

— Now we have alcohol gel!

— Yes. We clean our hands before entering the Church.

— Does God judge us?

— God knows us.  He knows everything, sees everything and is everywhere.  So only he can judge us with true justice.

But before he judges he sets you free.  He lets you live on this Earth.  So that every day you choose His way.  The way of good.

When you die on Earth and arrive in Heaven you will receive your individual judgment.  And your judge will be God.

— Can I do the same in Auto da Compadecida** and ask Our Lady to be my lawyer?

— You can.

— I am evangelical.  I won't have a lawyer?

— Of course you will.  The Holy Spirit.  Pray to Our Lady, the Saints, the angels and the souls.  Our witnesses increase.  But it doesn't change our sentence.

So whatever we do or plan.  We must do with God.  If we pray, think and act with God, in God and for God all day long.  We will be on the fastest way to salvation.

— And when we don't believe him?

— Your path will be the slowest.  But you can be sure that all your life he will try to bring you back.  For he is a Father and wants all his children close to him.  He loves you and doesn't want you to go the wrong way.  — They are a little silent.

— Miss Mary?!

— Good morning everybody!  I arrived early kids.

— I thought I was late.

— Not!  Excuse me.  — Miss Mary enters the Church.

— Our time has come.

— We are going to die?

— One day for sure.  I say I have to go.  Allow time for you to play a little before the meeting.  — The priest, the pastor and Judas say goodbye and go to their activities.

— Mr. Nestor, do you want to play with us?

— And who will I be?

— The judge.

— Well.

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*Text copied from: < https://www.dicio.com.br/adultero-3/ >.  Accessed on 07/27/2021. And translated to English.

**Brazilian theather's play written by Ariano Suassuna.

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