The Nun's Story Page #6

All this sounds very childish

when you tell it.

Her dislike, I believe, is based on fear.

She worries that she will

not be able to pass the examination.

Or if she does,

that she will be far below you in grade.

This could easily mean

that she could not return to the Congo.

You have been given a truly great

opportunity to make a sacrifice for God.

You asked what you might do?

Would you, Sister Luke...

be able to fail your examination

to show humility?

My Mother...

I would be willing if the Mother House

knows of this and approves.

Then it would be a humility with hooks,

as we say.

A humility that takes something back

for the sacrifice.

In this case, the satisfaction of knowing

that the Mother House knows.

-Courage needs witnesses.

-Yes.

Real humility, on the other hand...

passes unperceived

between God and the soul.

You have heard our phrase,

"Do good and disappear."

How do we know when we are humble?

When we can accept a real humiliation.

Such as this failure.

How can I know God wants this from me?

Go and ask Him.

But remember, you are weighing an

opportunity that may never come again.

Out of His eternal time...

God chooses His moment

to offer the most perfect alliance...

with each individual soul.

-Good morning, Sister Luke.

-Good morning, Doctor.

I promised I would call your father

immediately after the examination.

I shall defer to my eminent colleagues

for the first question.

Sister, the board would like

to hear from you...

in what parts of the tsetse fly

will the trypanosomes be found.

You may take your time

with this question, Sister.

We have been working on them

since the 1880s.

They will be found in the....

Perhaps you'd like the question repeated?

In the tsetse fly,

the trypanosomes will be found...

in the gut,

mouth parts, and salivary glands...

in all of which sites they multiply.

We would like to hear a rsum of the special clinical types of pernicious...

as differentiated

from chronic or latent malaria.

Cerebral, algid, bilious remittent fever,

blackwater fever...

and bronchopneumonic form.

I have good news.

All four of our sisters

have passed their examinations.

Sister Pauline will return to the Congo.

Sisters Timothy and Ellen...

will go to the Congo, too.

Sister Luke will leave tomorrow morning...

to join the nursing staff

of our mental sanatorium near Brussels.

Perhaps Reverend Mother feels

you are not yet ready for the Congo.

You must learn to accept with love

whatever comes to you.

It is essential in religious life.

You passed fourth in a class of 80.

Everything they do

is to be accepted as normal.

Sister Agnes, Sister Luke.

Good morning, Mother Christoph.

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