Reading 51, from The Power and the Glory
The stranger said, ‘I have only just landed. I came up the river tonight. I thought perhaps…I have an introduction for the senora from a great friend of hers.’
‘She is asleep’, the boy repeated.
‘If you would let me come in,’ the man said with an odd frightened smile, and suddenly lowering his voice he said to the boy, ‘I am a priest’.
‘You?’ the boy exclaimed.
‘Yes’, he said gently. ‘My name is Father – ‘ But the boy had already swung the door open and put his lips to his hand before the other could give himself a name.
My notes:
When God’s men were brutally removed by human hands, hope still manages to come…
The novel is a classic and one feels that Greene was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature because of his Faith. Thus Greene too should be part of our lectio-divina.
We can never forget the sinning, humane and saintly for that, whiskey-priest. We need Christ when we are most weak.
See the golden oldie movie.
Image: Thanks a lot for the image!
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