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Kill him, it brings luck!

Stop it! You need faith more than the others.

You could have waited for the Holy Blessing at least.

I can't get this haste and this grudge then. Try to be reasonable.

Ultimately you got on well with us.

Church also needs simple brothers, everyone can be useful.

You can serve God in several ways.

To confess or celebrate Mass is not the most important thing.

Priests, representing God, cannot have physical defects,...

...you know, you have studied it.

Then you, my son, who have such difficulty to express yourself...

However, this is a letter of presentation for the baroness Bezzi,...

...a very pious woman who suffers a lot because of her husband and sick son.

She will find something to do for you.

If you recover and want to come back, we'll always welcome you with open arms.

- Ah... - It's the least I could do.

God bless you.

Please, take a seat.

You get up. Stand up! Raise your ass from the chair!

Come on! Sit down here and make yourself comfortable.

What are you doing? Sacrilegious, ignorant, dunce, you don't have even any money!

Wait, huh? I'll be back very quickly.

Hurry, we have people with a lot of money.

Come here and I'll paste the beard on your face.

But is the wine for the function made up by that little powder, right?

The one which let me have the runs, made up by that crappy peasant.

- No, this is good. Shut up. - Easy does it.

What a nice kid. You did well to bring him.

He's just like Jesus Christ. He speaks to the Holy Spirit.

And then he comes from the North.

Look, blessed, you're alike! Oh my, you're alike!

If you had a beard, you'd be the same.

What a nice kid.

Brothers, in truth, in truth, I say to you that today my heart rejoices.

- The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me until now. - It spoke to him!

And now let's repeat the gesture of Grace!

Amen.

- It's God's body that it's hard to digest. - Enough! Don't say stupid things.

In truth, in truth, I say to you, here're the consequences of sin,...

...the convictions for our vices, for worship of money and pleasures!

Get him up!

Come on, leave him alone.

Leave him, I said!

Not always God satisfies us, the devil lurking filters.

The wicked one is strong, perhaps it'll go well next time.

We must persevere,...

...in truth, in truth I say to you.

Young master! You've forgotten the offering.

Poor us, what a misery.

Son, you're back. Poor us, what a misery.

How handsome you're this way.

If I had known you were coming, I'd not have sent your little sisters to Don Vito's.

At least he feeds them.

Do you remember your little brothers?

Good thing that death helped us or they'd be two extra mouths to feed.

However, tomorrow go to Don Vito and ask for a job.

He did send you to the seminary, that holy Christian will help you again.

After all you're always one of them, at heart, aren't you?

"Ba-ro-ness Bezzi". Good and rich family.

This court condemns the victim to guillotine!

Charge: pissing the baron Parsifal Bezzi off,...

...madam Clotilde's and general Augusto Bezzi's son...

...and Brunilde's brother here,...

...a girl well known as the ensign of assholes!

You're a rotten idiot and nothing but!

One day I'll break your head so you'll stop playing the little Robespierre with flies...

...and getting on people's nerves.

- Mom, I can't stand him anymore! - Be patient, Brunilde.

And you, Parsifal, do not use such words with your sister.

How many times must I tell to knock? Who's the gentleman? Ok, give me the letter.

And you come in.

"So I entrust the bearer of this letter hoping that you will help him somehow."

"Thanks for what you did for the Institute for now. Yours, Don Pio."

Don Pio wrote everything to me, I understand why you left the Institute.

The gentleman, as a child, has been speech impeded for a thrill, right?

Anyway, the less we speak in this house, the better it is.

You may be a friend for Parsifal, go out with him for a drive...

...in short, a sort of knight companion.

We'll come to an agreement with the salary.

Do you need also clothes?

Yes, I think I've got something. Come.

Come in.

I think it should fit you.

My husband has the same size as you.

Or at least almost the same size as you.

May I speak informally to you, right?

My husband hasn't been sleeping anymore with me for a long time.

By the way, if you come to work here with us, you'd better know...

...that he's an old man not fully clear headed, closed in his studio all the time.

Should you happen to meet him, he won't ask you any question. Come.

Look out!

Damn! I've just shitted myself!

If you're not careful, I might break my neck as well, in addition to my nose.

Do not go fast, I'm afraid of the car! You still didn't get it after 8 months!

What? I'm working as a fishwife for a piece of bread...

The civil pension as a widow is not enough even for the house...

...and you give me this pittance?

They are no longer being affected by typhus for 8 years and still have the same clothes.

What the fuck! It'd have been better not to have sent you as a child in the priests!

I did that to let you eat and these are the results!

At the age of 13, you could already work and bring home the bacon!

A mother does so much for her children and children don't do anything for their mother.

Here, Don Vito, for the poor people.

Baroness, Church owes so much to people like you,...

...always ready to extend a charitable hand to those who suffer.

There is no pain that can't be relieved by a bit of money,...

...other sufferings instead...

Oh, I understand you, baroness, but faith do relieve them.

In fact it's the only thing I'm left with. If I hadn't it...

By the way, Don Vito, if you meet the seminary's dean,...

...tell him that the guy he had recommended has become one of the family by now.

Parsifal has really grown fond of him. I don't know what he'd do without him.

I've known him since he was a child. It was me who sent him to the seminary.

Poor guy, if he had not had that defect,...

...he'd have been a great priest, really gifted at ministry.

Ah, if you knew, baroness, how poor his family is.

But, you see when I talked about faith?

After her husband's terrible loss, that woman has found the strength to survive.

Now I go, parishioners are waiting. I wanted to say goodbye to Parsifal but he doesn't come.

My respects to you, baroness.

My respects.

Fuck off!

Her face is ugly, but her ass is photogenic.

Why so late? I'd like to go for a walk with such sun.

Wait for me, I go and get the cover.

Come close to me, please, we've not been able to stay together for a while.

It seems that Parsifal is spying on me all the time.

Let's go, I'm ready.

Oh, listen, here's some money in case Parsifal wants something.

Today Don Vito has paid us a visit.

Quick, give me some stones.

The detached tail keeps on moving...

...instead I have my legs attached but I can't do the same.

It's better to be a lizard.

Don Vito has come to take the check my mom gives him for poor people,...

...so maybe he thinks to buy a lot in paradise.

You, being a priest somewhat, think it's enough to pay for paradise?

For heaven maybe not, but newspapers are to be paid.

Mom gave you the money, right?

The usual ones, eh!

Listen, would you screw this one?

But do priests think about these things?

Yesterday I saw Brunilde looking at her pussy in the mirror.

Here she noticed me.

Would you marry Brunilde?

Mom always says that it's my dad's fault if I'm like that...

...so I hate him, nobody of the family speaks to him.

Brunilde, instead, once in a while pays him a visit...but she's a crawler.

Damn!

We have to take him to the hospital.

I tried to brake and I think I succeeded.

- Just as well, nothing happened. - I was more afraid than him.

- Do I have to pay or s the show free? - Bitch! Today he almost died to save me!

- A car was going to run over me. - Wasn't it, don Hercules?

There's no need that you try hard, you can answer yes or not by your head.

Brunilde would like you to take your pants and even underwear off.

- General, my ass! Captain of the territory. - Come on!

- General, grades increase also if I'm a civilian. - Let's talk about serious things.

Addolorata told me you had a talk at the factory.

- They called me and I had to decide. - You've been not making decisions anymore for a long time!

The last decision you made 13 years ago is a son in a wheelchair.

Always the same story! Physicians pointed out that it's not my fault.

With all the blood samplings I've been doing, I got an anemia.

Right, it's never your fault, in fact it was me who went whoring!

"Woman to the burner, man to the brothel". Remember what your fascist friends talked about?

Now I'm in charge here! And if you risked your balls with whores...

...I made mine grow in your place, got it?

Prepare the car, let's go to the factory.

How is it that you're allowed to pay me a visit in jail?

Parsifal is cutting off flies' heads and mom went to the factory.

But you, dad, why do you let them treat you like that? Why don't you rebel?

You don't have always to accept everything passively.

I feel like being used up, I just want to sleep and be left alone.

So the others are right, you're just a useless old man!

Even if you died, no one would notice that!

I DON'T GIVE A DAMN

I DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN

- They are exploiting us, wretches! - It's true.

- Any news? - These are old things, baroness, every year it's the same.

And this year you want to change instead, and so you have disturbed the general.

- And we also made an agreement. - By phone?

For us general's word is more worth than a piece of paper.

- It's worth nothing, you know! - All right. Give us what he gave us.

Never! I give you even too much.

If I were not here to make a wine which pays nothing, all of you would starve.

Get back to work or I'll close everything and you go to hell!

No! You can't say that, for God's sake!

Yokels!

Oh my, what a beauty!

They will finally be able to get dressed normally.

Touch this fabric!

Never used. But we have to stretch them, they are too short.

Are you sure that she gave them to you as gifts?

Hey, does this mean...

That's a good sign, my son, an intimate gift.

Brunilde is already a woman of marriageable age. Got it?

You're mad! You have the opportunity and don't do anything?

Brunilde is ready, I know, a mother is never wrong about these things.

She's yours, take her, if you want to!

And then lady Clotilde will definitely have to give her to you! So this pittance will end up!

Mom, I thought that I'd need a nurse for my breakfast in the morning.

Maybe a beautiful and busty wench, eh?

Ah, come, give me a hand to wash him.

Come over there for a while, I need to talk to you.

Addolorata, you go on.

Bitch! Take me out, quick!

Bitch! Come on!

No, please, there's Brunilde at home, it's not safe.

Hurry up, bitch!

Blast you!

Baroness, help!

Come, baroness! Help!

Come, my husband killed himself!

Fool! What are you doing?!

But how does this come to your mind? Now you want to take it? Stupid!

So they will notice it right away. Tomorrow, before they close the coffin.

Be still, in a short time Addolorata will bring us something to eat.

Well, Don Vito, here's the check.

As you can see the amount is enough, but I want you to celebrate a great funeral.

The memory of the general should be reevaluated in people's eyes.

Call everyone, little orphans, sons of Mary...you, experienced, go ahead.

And you, please, take care of the hearse, the band...

Let workers and peasants of the estate come. Go the whole hog.

- Pay all what is needed! - Mom!

That's my stuff, it's due rightfully to me!

Poor general.

- You could not see or hear him. - Be still!

They say he was strange.

If no one was ever talking to him, how could they know?

Instead he was really good in my opinion.

Well...eat because the night is long.

Shit!

- What did you say? - Nothing, madam, how everything has changed here.

And now go to bed, tomorrow it will be a bad day. Throw away the sacks.

This is done.

Hello everybody, good women.

Sun is rising, we must begin a laborious day: wake up!

- Thanks... - My respects for the demise, little master. - Sign and shut up!

Next, please!

Compliments.

Cripple and asshole.

- Sign and shut up! - Condolences.

The general was a gentleman, a true gentleman.

- Parsifal, come in! Thanks for coming... - Condolences.

It has been a terrible loss.

I can't imagine I don't have him with me anymore.

Clotilde, bon courage, you have to be strong, even for them.

Oh, what a disgrace!

And then your husband had his ripe old age.

He looked out of the window... a vertigo, definitely.

It's unfair to die this way!

On the other hand it was good, he no longer wanted to see anybody...

...and recently used to eat alone in his room!

And he has been no longer fucking for many years. Why doesn't she say it?

Who knows who's currently screwing her, she must be a sex bomb in the bedroom.

- I would try. - Me too surefire!

What a disgrace.

Addolorata, make coffee.

- Yes, with cabbage and sausages over low heat. - Yes, everything in the pan.

And with no base fried mix, otherwise it's too heavy.

Well, my Gina, what a trouble was for Clotilde.

I still remember the day of their wedding, they seemed father and daughter.

- What a beautiful couple. - She doesn't seem to suffer a lot, though.

- Maybe it was a liberation. - Luckily she has found that boy.

- What? - Yes, that young unfrocked priest, as her partner.

Mary, you and me have not been meeting since George's funeral, right?

- No, since Federica's marriage. You had just bought a mink fur. - Oh, indeed.

Madam baroness, everything's ready. If you want to get down and check...

Thanks, Don Vito, but me and my sons will be staying here...

...we would not have the strength to...

Gee whiz, the defrocked one...

If my husband tolerated him, I'd also like such a partner.

- It's clear that the general was a tolerant husband.

Coffee is served.

In the name of the Father, the Son...

Play!

They're coming!

- How old are you, child? - 14.

- Nice. And what's your name? - Mary, like the Virgin.

- What will you do when you grow up, get married? - No, the presenter on TV.

Stop, buy me an ice cream with the money my mom gave you.

- The general Cadorna has arrived! - Yes, Cadorna in a wheelchair.

He must be the son of that piece of ass of baroness Bezzi.

My father worked for them, he was kicked out because he had gone on strike.

That varmint!

That guy who came in was in the seminary. He lives in the ghetto.

By day he takes the cripple on a stroll, by night he shags his mother, got it?

Come.

Who threatens Church's structures by words and acts is to be punished.

With no grudge or malice. Now pray and repent.

Hey, does she make you wear the robe when fucking?

Look out!

We taught them a lesson! So they'll learn not to be a pain in our ass!

Take.

And I did not even piss myself!

You see, mr Donato, you can afford no weakness with workers.

Sure., we have to pay, agreed, the right though.

Sure.

Of course, you pay for and claim.

When someone no longer satisfies us, we'll get rid of him and pay another one.

You're absolutely right. Okay, I greet you.

See you soon.

May I ask why you're snorting so much?

You'd call the technician for my TV, the antenna must be broken.

You could do it. We're in mourning, it'd not be nice that I did it.

The knight companion should fix it, at least he could do that.

- After all we pay him, don't we? - First, I pay him, and then...

And then another thing.

Since you don't study and risk to go to a college...

...instead of staying at home to criticize, take advantage, my dear, get out.

Do as your peers. Is it possible that you don't have a flirtation?

Do you think that it's easy to join in the others in this town of repressed slanderers?

I have to conquer my space in this kind of circus which you call family.

With a father throwing himself out of a window and a brother like mine...

...do you think it's possible to have friends not trying to be witty?

Thanks for leaving me out of the museum of horrors.

No, you're not left out, it's only that talking about me would be more complex.

- Mom! - And then the two are coming.

We'll talk later, if you want.

Mom, today we have beaten three boys who spoke ill of you!

You saved Parsifal from a car, defend a widow's honour...

You just have to fix the antenna of my TV to go into the Hall of heroes.

Please, go on the terrace with Brunilde and fix that damned TV.

Listen, they were three and you'd have seen the looks of their faces...

Wait, now I let someone go to the terrace with you, so you'll also see how an antenna is to be fixed.

You look like Saint Sebastian's portrait my mom has in her bedroom.

But why did a hunk like you want to become a priest?

I don't understand your situation here with us.

Mom says that you're a Parsifal's friend, but friends are not to be paid.

Let me see, you take the money and offer friendship in exchange?

And then what? Are there other services?

Since you serve my mother and Parsifal...

...if I ordered you, you'd have to help me out too, shouldn't you?

I'm part of the family and money belongs to everyone, hence to me too.

So, let's see. For first provide an easy thing, an opinion.

Do you like these panties?

Do they have the same effect on your little sisters?

So, what do you decide? Come on, I don't ask for a tough performance.

It's just an opinion.

I don't need men for my emotions.

Oh, well done...fix it well...

...so tonight Brunilde will be able to watch "Father Mariano's mail".

After the tests I can confirm the previous diagnosis.

There are no lesions, so it's a nervous trauma.

However, you'd have to go to Toulouse, in France.

This is a letter for Dr Valenti...

...who is the only specialist in this field, I think.

40,000.

Why aren't you in your bed?

- So what? - I had to, Father.

It's like if I had heard Madonna's voice calling me to prayer.

So Madonna called you, huh? - Yes, just Madonna.

Well done, okay.

But now go to bed!

Ah, should you hear Madonna's voice again, call me, we will pray together.

We can't go on like this, please, we can't.

- Why don't you marry her? - Go! Get out!

- Maybe she wouldn't want you as you're too stupid. - Damn!

Yuck!

I hate you, yucky bitch! Cockeyed dirty slut! Shitty woman!

But what's happened to those ones...

He must have had a fight with Brunilde, excuse me.

- What's up? - That yucky bitch of your daughter is always breaking my balls!

- Look, if I had a sword instead of the mirror... - Yes, but now calm down.

- You're always going heavy on reactions. - Ah, mom, by the way!

Yesterday on the terrace that bitch did her utmost to provoke him.

She even raised her skirt! But he did nothing, better he almost kicked her out.

I got the picture of the bitch! She was going to swipe him from us!

I'll send you Addolorata to get you dressed, be quiet now.

Your sister must have played a joke.

Brunilde is playing a dangerous game: I hate her.

You hate her too, I know.

Yesterday on the terrace I saw... that idiot. You were so great.

I told my mother, if the little sister is not careful, she'll end up like dad.

Try to hurry up.

Well, look at that...

Thanks, thank you very much.

If you've dreamed of Madonna, it's a good sign.

I'll talk about it to madam Clotilde, you'll see, she will organize the trip.

Thank you, you're very good. Thanks.

Here, look how much begging pays.

- Stop making that piggish noise! - You're a slut making no noise!

Enough, Brunilde, you've become intolerable!

I've been not standing you for a while. You look like your late lamented father.

He became late lamented because of you.

And we all know that.

Better, why don't we talk about it for a while?

I'm sorry, see you tomorrow, as the young lady says, we have to make things clear.

Look, my dear, I'm warning you that I'll no longer stand certain excesses.

If you're not able to eat with the others, you can do it alone in your room.

Why don't you move to your father's room, so you'll be more peaceful.

You could do like him, he lived there so well...

There must be order in this house.

Addolorata, the second course!

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name...

...thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

How strict they have become, 28 "Hail holy Queen".

Like me, Don Vito made me say 200 "Our Father"...

...because I had spitted to my daughter-in-law's plate.

Now that I put rat poison in her soup, I'll no longer confess.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name...

Daughter, sins of the flesh are the most difficult to fight.

And the devil, hidden in the folds of flesh, stimulates us to sin.

Father, I try to resist, but when I feel his hands on me...

- Then I pray and I feel better. - Well done! Pray.

Well done, my daughter, only this way you can chase away the wicked one...

...who went back to Earth determined to get us lost.

However, the right man sins seven times per hour.

Remember, they have more parties in heaven...

...for one sinner who repents than for one hundred right men.

I absolve you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Don Vito, if the you want to come and visit us for poor people...

By the way, baroness, I'm organizing a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

I was thinking if the case might be to send Parsifal too.

You're a pious woman, baroness, Our Lady could...who knows?

Don Vito, you know what a pain is for me that child.

Ah, if only Our Lady could pay attention to me...

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name...

She has been there for two hours and goes away with no penance.

I've been there for two minutes and have to say 28 "Hail holy Queen".

- Hail Holy Queen, Mother of... - What can you do, my dear? She's baroness.

Our Father, who art in heaven...

So, Parsifal, I decided, you'll go to Lourdes.

Don Vito has arranged everything. You'll leave Sunday. He will accompany you.

- I don't want to go, I'm afraid. - Of what? - I don't know, but I don't want to.

Instead you'd have to be happy.

My son, Madonna does not hurt. The devil sure does, in case.

- Think, you will see France! - Are there stripteases in Lourdes?

No, you can find them only in Paris.

Then after I want to go to Paris.

Madam, miss Brunilde threw a bowl of soup in my face.

- Excuse her, she's very nervous in these days. - Just a moment, maid.

I inform you that baron Parsifal Bezzi will go to Paris.

Who knows...who could not care less.

Hey! Why in the dark? Are you not afraid?

It's not dark, can't you see the lights of the street?

What's up? Tonight you haven't eaten, don't talk, stay in the dark...

- Do you feel sick? - No, I just think of the trip.

- There's no hope for a cure, I know it. - What are you saying?

Doctors always hope, and me too...

It's pointless to make a fool of each other, Brunilde told me that with a long face.

Do not believe in that idiot, she's just angry.

- We don't have to talk to her anymore. - It's not for her, I always knew it too.

Now I'm afraid of Lourdes...Got it? If things go amiss, I'm fucked!

- It's the last hope I'm left with. - You'll see, this time there will be a grace.

It must be there!

We paid the journey for Don Vito and the others too.

Our Lady will also take account of this.

But don't be like that, you have to pray. Pray and with faith.

- But how many people will leave? - I don't know, around fifty, maybe.

- And we have paid for everybody. - No, we have chipped in.

Mom, you were stupid, do you realize? Fifty!

If Madonna showers you with grace, the more we're the fewer chances there're.

Make people pay back your money.

Mom, me and you are getting on really well now. Don't you think?

But what would change in the family if by chance I came back healed?

They are coming.

Let's hope that someone won't die at the station.

Rejoice, brothers!

Lift up your hearts!

Faith wins!

- To the soul which has faith... - Come. -...He grants everything.

Make them get on very quickly, the team playing an away game will be here soon.

- Yes, all right. - Hurrah for Jesus! - Put it down.

Just a moment, listen! Silence! Now you're getting on the train.

Please do not push, you might hurt yourself. There're seats for everyone.

Compartment in the head is reserved for Bezzi. Got it?

Don't take it up, you understand?

Now, my dear sons, a lot of fervent greetings, a big kiss from my heart...

...draw him up, and may Our Lady take care of you.

- Oh, what a blessed day... - Go on, in order.

Well done, young man. Go, you will become child again. Order!

- In order! - Hurrah for Jesus! - Well done, well, sing!

Joy is faith! Faith is joy!

To the soul which has faith, He grants everything. To the soul which has faith...

I saw you with that stick! You have to stop it, got it?

Wait!

How rude! Let's hope that Our Lady will make you lose weight, you'll be less intrusive.

And who wants to lose weight? I want to win the contest for the new voices.

- To the soul which has faith... - ...Heaven has given us...

Oh, what a blessed day, hurrah for Jesus!

Come on, and please at Lourdes come back early in the evening, do not be late.

Hey, you, what are you doing? Your stick is always up!

And you are even brothers. Shame on you!

Who knows when we will be able to stay together again.

Oh my, 14:00 pm! How late.

We have to hurry, I'll go there and let Parsifal get dressed...

In the meanwhile...get the car ready.

If he wanted to go to Paris after Lourdes, go along with him.

Please, be good, even from here I'll be checking you.

We will win hands down!

We will get into your houses against the wall and break your ass.

Oh, what a blessed day... ...Heaven has given us!

Oh, what a blessed day, hurrah for Jesus!

Hurrah for Jesus!

For God's sake! When will they ever arrive? Hurrah for Jesus!

Brunilde has not even said goodbye to me.

- When we get back, we will send her to a college. - May I?

Need anything?

Don Vito, before leaving, has recommended me to pop in from time to time.

I'd like something to eat and to know when they will hook us to other trains.

First hook will be in 7 hours and miss Marconi will bring you the lunch.

Now if you'll excuse me...

I'd like to get some sleep, let me lie down.

Come on, wake up, we have stopped, they are hooking.

I'm miss Marconi. I will pop in once in a while to see if you need anything.

- If she was a little later, we could starve. - But there're the others as well.

Then a man felt ill and we took him to the hospital car.

It takes a lot of patience.

...our harmony sounds in heaven...

...praise Mary.

Mary, you're a pure white lily...

...that makes our hearts fall in love with your son's word.

Praise Mary.

- Hurrah for Mary! - Hurrah for the Virgin!

Good evening, may I and my grandmother sit down here?

This compartment is reserved to us, you're not allowed to.

My mother has paid for the others too, so go away!

Also we, honey, have paid for the others, so we sit.

Well, since we have to travel together, I'd better introduce me.

Teresa Auditori, and that's my grandmother.

I'm the baron Parsifal Bezzi and that's my secretary.

- It's the first time you go to Lourdes? - Yes, the other times I went to Paris.

My grandmother is very sick...

...we have been coming to Lourdes for three years in the hopes of her healing.

Have you seen many healings occur at the sanctuary?

- Miracles always happen, everyone get them. - Are you kidding?

You see, my dear, a miracle is not only to cure yourself of a pain you're affected by,...

...a miracle is to accept your own sufferings modestly and with resignation...

...and find the strength to live peacefully in faith.

A miracle is to run over a flowered lawn, even if you don't have your legs.

You run on it with your imagination.

A miracle is to look at nature,...

...look at this prodigy which has been recurring for centuries in any moment.

It's God, and speaks to you in a lot of ways.

It's enought that you want to understand its message.

I can't walk. I've been like that since I was born.

I have no sensitivity and strenght as to my legs...

They keep on growing but it's as if they were detached from me,...

...as if they didn't belong to me.

Do you think that I could be happy even in such condition?

Happiness doesn't belong to this world. You see, life is just a whisper of eternity.

We must prepare for what's next, that's the only purpose of existence.

So why do you take your grandmother to Lourdes?

Shorten her waiting for a future happiness, kill her...

...so she will go to heaven and be happy.

It would be unfair because life does not belong to us.

You can't destroy what is not yours, you do not have the right to.

But who is he?

He's my secretary.

He was in the seminary, then he was dismissed because he could not speak.

But it's not that he doesn't talk at all, he's only stuttering.

A lot! Think that it takes him a month just to day "yes".

- And is he hoping for a miracle too? - No, not him, he accompanies me.

He doesn't care about talking, he does.

Thanks for everything, father.

Have you been feeding her for a long time?

- There must be five years, by now. - If you want, I can help you.

No, thanks, honey, I'm used to. Better, I'll feed you too later.

Teresa, listen, when we'll get off to Lourdes...

...my friend will have to go to Toulouse and deliver a letter on behalf of our priest.

- May I go with you to the sanctuary? - Sure, honey, we'll go together.

Your friend will join us at the hotel.

It's outrageous!

This promiscuity is not to be allowed.

At other times, the right ones, that would not have happened!

Dear lady, you ought to be ashamed...

...doing the job you do, you even dare to come to the sanctuary!

I'm doing this job because of people like you.

You're our best customers. Our Lady knows how much I suffered.

Dear lady...Eh, ma'am...

For your information...

...men like me gave their blood to defend the nation!

- I lost my arm in Africa! - So you learn to be neater.

I lost my virginity at the age of 12...

Silence! He felt asleep.

Parsifal told me that you'll have to go to Toulouse.

If you don't mind, I could go with the boy to the sanctuary.

Poor baby, he has heard people talking more about devil than God.

- He was so scared. - Please, make way!

- Nothing happened, don't worry. - Nothing happened.

You move, please, let us go! Here!

Come on, easy! Nothing happened, madam, do not worry.

A man fell ill, sorry. Go in!

Nothing happened, go in! Everybody go in!

Still 10 hours, it's just an unnerving journey.

Be good, it's nothing, I'm here, grandma.

Don't be afraid, it was a nightmare. Calm, calm down now, okay?

She must have been dreaming, poor dear. Be good, now...

- Are you scared? - A little, you know, I was sleeping...

Thanks!

I don't have a boyfriend, it's clear that men don't find me beautiful.

I think you're very beautiful! If you wanted to, I'd marry you.

- I'm very rich, you know? - But you're too young.

I'm rich too, and hence ours would be a marriage of convenience.

Leave me alone, I'm speaking! When I'm hungry, I'll tell you!

Can one fall in love with God from praying him too much?

There's a poem by a holy nun who was in love with God.

It says:

"When the sweet hunter..."

"...stretched the bow to have a dig, I fell wounded at full..."

"...in the arms of love..."

"...but I was given a new verve again and I burnt with such a fire in my chest..."

"...that the Beloved is all mine and I'm all of the Beloved."

"I was struck by a bolt of burning love..."

"...so that my soul joined its Lord closer and closer."

"Now I don't desire anything else, my love is here for Him only."

"The Beloved is all mine, and I'm all...all of the Beloved."

It's beautiful, it's a wonderful prayer.

But is the hunter the boyfriend?

- No, he's the groom. - Ah...

- Saint Teresa of Avila spoke to God... - Look at this.

Her beautiful body was raising into the air during the conversations.

The quivering breasts, the body fully aimed at ecstasy...

...a contact...a contact with God came true.

The mouths joined in the sublime offering and her soul was hovering lightly...

- Oh, finally we have arrived. - ...Genoa, Pisa, Rome.

Wait for me over there. I give passports and will be right there.

Well, here. This way.

Well done! Really well done!

All right. Our rooms are even near.

- How good it sounds. - Hear how Chopin is playing arpeggios.

Well done!

Listen, I need to change, I'm all wet.

You know, in front of Teresa I didn't want to show that...

Before going to Toulouse, you've to let me have a bath, otherwise I'll smell very awful.

Come in.

May I? Well done, I see that you have unpacked.

You go ahead, I will take care of Parsifal.

Actually I wanted him to let me have a bath before.

I will do.

Well, you know, I'm feeling ashamed.

Just imagine, I washed a lot of people. You go ahead, don't worry.

Okay, then go. See you tonight.

But how long is this mass?

Don't be impatient, honey, now we go.

- Please, do not let me sink in the bath. - Okay, honey, as you like.

Oh my God!

However, I fully agree with my colleague's diagnosis.

There are no cures on medical or surgical side.

But over the years and through a series of special exercises...

...you could begin to make yourself understood.

Unless you wanted to undergo a shock treatment or curare.

But I don't recommend it personally.

However, do not lose heart, do not demoralize.

I've suggested the vocal exercises which I consider essential to my colleague.

You'll be never able to speak perfectly...

...but you'll notice remarkable improvements after some time.

Teresa, I don't know, I want to be close to you. Please let me be with you, I'm afraid.

Okay, my dear. As you like. Thank you.

It will be a long night. They will come and get you at dawn.

Here in Lourdes people who die are taken away at night...

...not to shock the other sick persons, reasonably.

And he did leave us alone!

It's not his fault. I told him to go.

Who could predict that? I didn't have to let her sink into the spring.

Listen, Teresa, you said you're alone in the world.

I'm alone too at heart, especially now that he...

If you want, I come and stay with you, in your town.

You know, I was helpful to everyone in the family, no one to me.

I'll let me be given the money, we could be together.

Honey, you're very good. I'm sure you'll be happy after all.

No, do not say that, I've never been good.

You're an angel instead.

Parsifal, listen, you've idealized me a lot. I'm a woman like any other.

With the same problems, the same fears,...

...the same questions waiting for a response.

You see, my dear, if my life had been different,...

...if I had not been forced to live with her...

...who took up all my time, maybe now I'd be another woman.

And you wouldn't feel the affection you harbour for me now.

It's not true. I'm sure that you'd have been the same, even in different condition.

Dear honey, to be good, tolerant of your neighbor,...

...love this neighbor deeply...

...means to be tolerant and good with yourself.

It means not to be afraid, not to have upheavals,...

...to be calm and ready to face any calamity God wants to inflict on us.

You see, I don't feel all of this. I'm afraid, Parsifal.

Fear of life, of loneliness, of the world.

I have no fear, but not even hope.

What are you doing here? You could even stay in Toulouse!

We no longer need you, by now! Go away!

No, don't listen to him. Poor thing, he's shocked by my grandmother's death.

It has been a terrible accident. Now, however, we will give him a painkiller.

She had a collapse while they were sinking her into the Sacred Fountain.

She was the only loved person I had.

After the death of my family, she was more than a mother for me.

Remove that hand, ugly slob!

Please, my dear, try to rest. Don't be evil.

Yeah, okay, but I want to come and live with you.

I agree. But now sleep, relax.

You go ahead, do not worry for me, I may be alone, it's ok.

Please, be good, but what are you doing?

No! You cannot!

No, you coward!

No!

I don't want to see you anymore, don't touch me!

It was an accident! My friend fell...fell down the stairs.

I...I tried to stop him, but... but he got out of my hands.

- Poor baby... - Well, you know...anyway he was a cripple!

If you heal and want to come back again, we will always welcome you with open arms.

In the big misfortune Madonna extended her helping hand on me. I was dumb, now I speak.

He was dumb! Our Lady gave him back his voice.

And from now on my voice will be only for her.

On your knees, my brothers.

Let's thank the Virgin.

Let's pray.

"Hail Mary, full of grace,..."

"...the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women."

"And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus."

"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,..."

"...now and at the hour of our death."

"Amen."

"Hail Mary, full of grace,..."

"...the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women."

"And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus."

"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,..."

"...now and at the hour of our death."

"Amen."

"Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name..."

"...Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done."

"Blessed is he..."

"...who comes in the name of the Lord."

"Hosanna!"

"Hosanna..."

"...in the highest!"

revised by quidtum December 2013