Chapter 53: A stranger man

POV LUANA

With difficulty, Father Augustine leads me into a small room where host and wine are kept.

"I came to bring you this here..." I place the money in his hands and squeeze his fingers tightly so he won't let them go to the floor.

"No daughter, it's sin money. I can't accept it" He refuses, and deep down I already expected that attitude from him.

He never accepted that I did not want to follow the mission of being a novice and becoming a wife of God. And being a woman of life affronted his values as much as he cultivated that everyone deserves God's forgiveness.

"It's not from sin. I will remake my life with a good and serious man. I need your blessing" I speak the truth.

"I give it to you, but I don't need the money. Distribute it to the poor on the street.

Each one of them is our brother, God's family" He refuses the money again.

"Speaking of brother, family, priest, has no one ever come looking for me?"

So many years have passed, but I never lose hope.

"No, you were left by