[2016] The Precious Amish Baby by Faith Crawford

Author:Faith Crawford [Crawford, Faith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 30126025
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Published: 2016-05-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

"I wish to be a nun, Father Stefano," Adrianna said.

She heard the sharp intake of breath. Her news had taken Father Stefano by surprise. They walked on silently. Adrianna enjoyed their fortnightly meeting that Father Stefano had instigated a month earlier. For her, it felt wonderful to confide in someone she trusted. She had spoken of her dead parents and the sense of responsibility she now felt towards her brothers. Father Stefano had listened without interrupting as was his custom.

“Have you spoken to the Mother Superior about it?” he finally asked.

“Yes. She said to give myself more time to think about it,” Adrianna replied. “But I don’t want more time.”

“What could be the harm?” Father Stefano asked.

***

Later in the day, Adrianna sat in the chapel with the other nuns for a period of quiet meditation. She had come to love the solitude of the convent. The afternoons had been most difficult for Adrianna. The nuns were required to be silent from two o’clock up to five in the evening. While she had found the mandatory silence unbearable, she had now come to terms with it.

There was something to do every hour of the day, which gave Adrianna less time to think of her parents and even her brothers. Father Stefano had arranged for her to spend some time with her brothers. They had filled out in the few months that they had been at the monastery and seemed even more grown than their fourteen years.

She supposed it was the loss of their parents and being forced into a life they had known nothing of. Still, the three of them were grateful for the care and protection that the monastery offered them. Benito though had seemed to take to the life at the monastery more than Dante.

“When will the war end, Adrianna?” Dante had asked his face creased with impatience.

She had shrugged. Unlike Dante, she was in no rush for the war to end. The end would mean making decisions about each of them, and while she was determined to become a nun, she still had to think of her brothers.

“I like it here,” Benito had said in his new deep voice that still startled Adrianna.

The boys were changing so fast. They were becoming young men. They both had dark shadows above their upper lips and their shoulders had filled out. If only Mamma and Papa could see them!

The nuns broke out into a soft hymn, bringing Adrianna back to the present. She longed to wear the white veil that signified that one was a novice nun. Adrianna was as religious as the other nuns. She heard them speak of embracing a hidden life of pure faith. They spoke animatedly of the gift of a life of prayer and penance for His glory.

Adrianna had no clue what they meant, but it all sounded good to her. That evening as she helped to serve supper, the Mother Superior rushed in, her thin face taut with an emotion Adrianna could not identify. The other nuns seemed to see it too for the room fell into silence.

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