Beyond the Hills Page #6

it's better not to do it at all...

If you don't say everything, not only

are the ones confessed not forgiven,

but they say they even double!

- She will! Come on, read.

So... I didn't believe

in God's help and mercy.

...If you doubted that God

exists and might help you.

If you don't understand,

don't be ashamed to ask. Ok?

You should be ashamed when you

commit the sin, not when you admit it.

I said that God won't help me, because I've

sinned too much so I'll end up in Hell anyway.

It's better if you write the numbers, you know...

- Write just like that... 2...

- Let her, she knows...

- All right, just say the number

at each one, ok? - Ok.

I said that if He wants... 3. I said that if He wants,

God delivers me, if he doesn't want, he doesn't.

Even if you didn't think at all about deliverance,

this is also a sin, you know...

that's why he doesn't help me.

world and God just sits and watches, doing nothing.

So? Why doesn't he do anything?

So, you thought like that...

Mark that down.

Don't stop, read ahead.

- You read, I'll mark them directly in the book.

And after that we erase them. You have an eraser, right? - I do.

God, Heaven, Hell, angels, devils.

I doubted there are God, Heaven, Hell,

etc, because I didn't see them.

I don't believe some stories, wonders, told in the Holy Book.

threw away the Holy Books.

hear people talking about God.

I had dark moments when I didn't want

to hear words about faith and God any more.

The Holy Virgin, the Holy Sacraments, etc.

will forgive me anyway, no matter how much I sin, because He's good.

moral author of somebody's suicide.

drugs is suicide. I sold cigarettes and/or drugs.

"votive light", "God", "Jesus", "frankincense", "dead people", etc.

I was angry with my neighbor.

I argued and I wished to argue with others.

of calming myself down and forgiving them.

and my children learned it from me.

with anger, I spat on others.

Will you sing something, please?

# Sleep, my baby, sleep tight.

# An angel comes flying.

# To watch you through the window.

# The butterflies are singing

you a song from a branch.

# The fire burns out now,

# Only ashes and dust.

# You become sleepy as you fly,

# Sleep, my baby, sleep tight.

# Tight...

- Did he absolve you?

- Yes.

- And the canon?

A thousand "paternoster" and fast.

Look, you pray to the Holy Virgin,

make 33 "paternoster" and you mark one line.

Take this piece of paper, pencil...

And so on until you finish.

- When you're tired, you stop and rest.

You understand? - Yes. - Good.

- Where's the priest?

- In his cell.

Priest, come quick,

Mother Antonia has passed out.

- Fetch some water. - What happened?

- Mother Antonia has passed out.

Priest, Mother Antonia was splitting some wood

and in that piece of pine she found a black cross.

That one!

And priest, it's been three days

since the chicken laid an egg.

Go all of you to your chores and stop

with all this crap and the fake signs.

And what should we do

with this piece of wood?!

You put it on a fire, what else...

What time is it?

- Two o'clock.

- It snows? - A little.

- You want me to stay with you?

- As you wish.

# My God, my God,

please listen to me...

# Why did you leave me?

# Far are from my

redemption the words...

# My God, I'll shout in the

day and you won't hear me,

# and in the night

and you won't think of me.

# ......

Alina...

What's with you?

Why don't you sleep?

What are you doing here?

Reading from the Bible.

Now, in the night?

This is my canon.

And you read together?

- Alina...

- Leave me alone.

Alina, I thought you were sleeping.

- Don't go away like this again.

- All right.

Come on, go to sleep.

You don't come?

I have to read.

I'm not going alone.

- Alina, I'm just here.

- No.

- You want to stay with us to read?

- Mhm...

All right, come sit.

Put this on you.

- Sister, the stove still has some cracks,

it needs some more clay. - Yes, Mother.

- What's up?

- She has the devil in her. I have to tell the priest.

Let the priest alone,

calm down, what did she tell you?

She was saying crazy things,

and she wasn't speaking with her voice!

- I'll speak to her, don't tell anything to the priest, please.

- God help me...

The priest said to take Alina and go to talk to him.

- Where's the priest?

- In his cell.

Come in.

Take a seat for a moment.

Alina, how should I put it... anybody who decides to live

in a monastery, has to free himself from all the earthly things.

To have his mind to the Holy One

and to live in cleanliness and holiness for real,

he leaves behind everything,

the house, the money...

because, you know, it is not in vain that

they say that "money is the eye of the devil"

And leaving everything behind also means

not to have more love for people than for God.

Why? So there is nothing left

to pull him back to life.

...To give him needs. Because

the devil is very cunning.

He knows how to make you have

desires, soften you and forget God.

And you think that it's your flesh and your desires

that you fulfil, but in truth it is HIM you serve and satisfy.

Now, if you ever decide that you want to go on this path,

we will receive you here open-hearted,

but before that you'll have to

give what you have to give...

what you have to bring here,

if you have money or other objects,

so bring them, because you

see we're all like a big family.

Each of us contributes with

whatever he can.

But now it seems to me you're

not prepared to make this step.

So I say, you go and think about it,

calm down, reconsider...

and when you get to a conclusion,

you come here and tell me "priest, this and this".

But what did I do, priest?

It's not about what

you did or didn't do.

The convent is for those

who want to go on this path.

And you are midway.

You'd stay, you'd go,

And this torments you even more.

Understand?

I spoke to Mr. Valerica

and he's waiting for you.

As soon as you're

ready, you're on.

Wait a moment outside.

You come with me, right?

You may go with her.

Daddy, where is she supposed to go?

Doesn't she have a

family where she lived?

She hasn't lived there

for a long time now.

She only has some things there.

I don't know. Go there and see.

Daddy, but with God's help she'll find

her way if she stays here, you'll see.

Mother, you can't put God into

somebody by force. Understand?

Yes, daddy, but...

Mother, I told you something, right?

Let her decide and as God

wishes, that will be.

Come on, go.

Bless me.

- Help yourself.

- No, thank you.

- Please, they're maigre.

- Thank you.

- You? - Thank you.

- May it be received.

- You help yourself, ok?

- Yes, thank you.

I'll take one too,

they're very good.

So, what did they say at the hospital?

That she needs silence and rest...

That's why we were thinking that she

should stay here for a while, to get better.

And after that we'll see.

I said that's not

good with this Germany...

That she works too much.

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