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- Have you seen Ignazio?

- No, I'm sorry.

- Thank you.

- Father Mario, excuse me...

Wouldn't you like to hear

the children's Confirmation song?

Yes.

Children, keep the tempo.

I'm tuning into God

He's the right frequency

I'm the one tuning in

He's a goal for me

I want to choose Jesus...

I listen to His voice

I listen to His command

He teaches me so much

He teaches me what I'm worth

I want to choose Jesus...

March elections are, for Calabria,

a testing ground...

What treatment!

Go to bed.

No, I'm fine here.

I dreamed my teeth were falling out.

Bad sign, right?

Pretty much.

Come here.

Are your Confirmation classmates nice?

Normal.

That's good.

- What?

- They're not abnormal.

- What do you do?

- We sing.

Let me hear.

- I don't remember.

- Come on, a little bit!

- No, come on...

- Are you shy?

You're shy!

Come on, a little bit for your mom

who has to go to work.

Okay, but close your eyes.

Really close them!

I want to choose Jesus...

Oh, God.

Why are you so selfish?

Let Mom sleep!

You sleep at night, don't you?

Rosetta, I can defend myself.

That's not true!

You don't realize

she's devouring all your energy.

She's sucking up

all you have left inside.

What are you saying?

These are your Confirmation clothes.

They're my boyfriend's sister's.

They have to be returned intact.

You're welcome!

- Rita, where've you been?

- Sorry, the girls...

It's okay now.

The dough's rising over!

Help him out.

It was Jesus' very hands

that revealed his holiness to people.

Placing His hands,

the Savior performed His first miracles,

like this

Did she freeze?

We too can experience

this energy of faith

that flows from our hands.

And we'll do it with a game called

"The dance of the man born blind. "

- Who can say who he was?

- Me!

Anna?

The man born blind

was a man who'd never seen,

so Jesus Christ gave him sight.

Good!

- How did he do that, Jasmine?

- No clue!

- Cinzia?

- With His hands?

- How, Sara?

- He put them on his face.

I'll explain what He did exactly.

Jesus used spit,

saliva on His hands,

and then He placed them

on the man born blind.

Wait. Wait.

I remember one.

How's it go?

Jesus, take me in Your hands tonight.

Watch over me till morning light.

Doesn't count.

It's not a prayer.

- What is it?

- A phrase.

They remember

every prayer that exists:

the Credo for the Agonizing,

the Credo for the Dying,

the Credo for the Suffering...

Mom?

Get under!

Tell me.

Rest.

Don't get overtired.

I'm going to Alfri's.

I'm a sufferer...

Come on, stop!

That's enough.

Let's sleep.

Come on.

She might be back.

Rest.

Let's sleep.

I pray for the moribund...

That's enough.

Real rest now.

Chips, pastries, cookies, crackers...

Drinks are missing.

If we have to buy drinks,

expenses increase.

- Right, Father?

- What?

Sorry if I interrupt this idyll

of drinks and crackers.

We're worse than the kids!

All they think of is clothes.

- But who comes back after Confirmation?

- The church is always full.

Of course, there aren't many youths.

But we're always here.

If these kids get to Confirmation,

it's no small thing.

They have to study, grow...

- Grow, that's the right word!

- I didn't mean anything special...

By now the church has become a place

for toddlers, women, old ladies,

people who have nothing to do.

I think you're a pessimist.

Sorry, maybe I didn't say that right.

Let's look around and see

what the world offers today:

uncertainty, instability.

The Church has to become

a protagonist again.

It has to propose extraordinary events,

like ours:

a new Confirmation, renewed.

And the crucifix will be

the gift for our community.

It's a figurative crucifix.

Right. We have to get this crucifix

and hide it before the Bishop comes.

Sunday morning.

Is that enough time?

It's two or three hours round trip,

but I can't do it any earlier.

He can't do it any earlier.

At 3:
00, Confirmation, Holy Mass

and presentation of the crucifix...

Cristiano, come here.

At 5:
00, the dance of

the little virgins.

The girls are ready.

They need a good beating!

Kids have to obey.

Obey in the name of what?

Settle down.

I'll be right back.

Where's he getting

this figurative crucifix?

It's in an abandoned church

in Father Mario's town.

- What's this exercise called?

- Lining up for God.

When would that be?

For Confirmation. Excellent.

I'm sorry.

I can't before that.

Seventy.

All reliable people.

Don't worry.

About the other thing,

tell His Excellency I feel ready

and I could give much more

if I were transferred.

- Hear that?

- What?

They're transferring him.

- What's that mean?

- He just said so.

He wants to have a bigger church.

Why?

In a more important church,

he might be made bishop.

Good for his career,

even if he doesn't pray well.

"Now, Master, let your servant

go in peace, according to your word"

For my eyes...

have seen your salvation, which you

prepared in sight of all the peoples,

a light for revelation

to the Gentiles...

...and glory for your people Israel.

"In waking save us,

in sleep abandon us not... "

I brought the next few days' meals.

- Is it true you'll be transferred?

- I wish!

What do you mean "I wish?"

And me?

Even if they transfer me,

I'll never forget the community

Besides, you should be glad.

I'd be offered great responsibility.

I know that,

but who knows

who they'll send in your place.

Maybe one of those foreign priests.

It's late.

They're waiting for you at home.

No, I brought sheets.

I'll go change the bedding.

- Will you be eating?

- No, thanks.

Look!

It'll fall on your head.

Let's go to the beach!

- Wish I could!

- Come on, please!

- On foot?

- Yes.

- No.

- Come on!

- No.

- I'll get it!

The rent!

May I?

Our Confirmation girl!

Here I am!

Excuse me. It's untidy.

You're eating.

I'll come by later?

No, no problem.

Our schedule's all off.

This is the rent.

- Everything all right?

- Yes.

How's work?

Fine. At least it's a job.

If it weren't for the early hour,

it would be perfect.

Every job has its defects

Mine's a job too,

but my task is much greater.

I have to protect you,

act in the parishioners' interest.

That's why I need to know

if I can count on you, on your family.

This isn't a good period.

There are so many bad types around.

- The elections.

- Of course.

What am I supposed to do?

You should put a signature here,

name and surname.

Ventura...

Ventura Rita.

Here?

- Your other daughter?

- Rosa?

- Is she over eighteen?

- Yes, just barely.

- Rosetta!

- What is it?

Come here.

- I have to study.

- Sign here.

Name and surname.

You'll be voting

at the grade school in Via Manzoni,

voting station B.

I think so.

This is the candidate to vote for.

For you too.

- Madame Agata, good evening.

- Evening, Father.

- Everything all right?

- Yes, please come in.

Did you resolve that problem?

Sara, start from further back.

Far enough. Come forward.

Stand straight.

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