Tuesday before Pentecost
Church of Our Lady of the Apocalypse...
He passes through the square and Nestor doesn't see him. He goes around the church and breaks down the back door.
— Who is it? — Priest Michaeel was preparing a breakfast for he and Nestor.
— I am your death!
— May I say my last prayer before Jesus Christ and Our Lady?
— Yes?! — The priest runs to the altar. He thinks I will regret this. Priest Michael begins his prayer:
— Our Father in Heaven! My dad! Father of this child of yours. The Creator of the Universe. The Lord who is in the Kingdom of Eternal Glory. Receive this prayer from your little son here in Sentrália.
In the square...
Frank sits on the bench in the square. He puts his bottle of water and his container of gel alcohol beside him. He opens his Bible and begins to read.
After a few minutes Nestor sees him.
— Frank!
— Hello Mr. Nestor!
— Don't you think it's strange that the priest hasn't opened the Church?
— Must have overslept. Today I don't hear Mr. Smith's cock.
— Me neither. I'll wait a bit.
— Ah! I forgot the dictionary!
— What is the word?
— Ordeal.
— What is test?
— It's a lot of questions for the teacher to know if I understand what she explained.
— The ordeal is when life gives you such a test. See that bottle?
— Yeah. She's halfway down the beer.
— I'm an alcoholic. I want to drink but I can't. So I'm enduring this ordeal.
— I understood. I will help you. — Frank takes the bottle, throws the beer into the sewer and the empty bottle into the recyclable trash. — Ready!
— Thank you very much. But if I were strong I would have done it.
— Mister Nestor! Do you know what constancy means?
— It's you always doing the same thing. For example every day you have lunch.
— Ah! I think here he means praying every day. — Mr. Nestor keeps his eyes fixed on the bakery. — Mr. Nestor, are you hungry?
— Yes. I arranged to have coffee with the priest.
— Let's knock on the back door. To wake him up. — The two go around the Church and Mr. Nestor realizes that the door has been broken down. He motions for Frank to be quiet and they go back to the front of the Church. And they find Thomas. Nestor whispers:
— They broke down the back door of the Church.
— I'll call the sheriff. — Frank drinks all the water he's so nervous.
— Go home!
— Take care of the Pries! — Frank picks up his things and goes home.
At church...
— Hallowed be your name that your will be done. If it is your will for me to die, I gladly accept it. But if it is not your will that you stop this son of yours from killing me. — A noise comes from the back of the Church and they both look back.
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