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And yet... I read in your eyes

bewilderment and fear.

Your souls are frozen with dismay.

Why?

Are you perhaps afraid at the

prospect of losing your power?

Power which for years you've wielded

over people and things.

But I ask you:

in the past year, have you rendered unto

God that which is God's?

You need have only one fear:

that of having strayed from God,

and from the Church.

The dismay of knowing that sin

invokes death. I repeat:

God will listen to you!

''If only you were cold,

"but as you're neither

warm nor cold,

"but tepid, I shall start to vomit

you from my mouth".

The Apocalypse of St. John.

There... I want these spiritual

exercises

to be... memorable for you!

Lamb of God, who taketh away

the sins of the world...

Give us peace.

The Communion hymn.

This has taught us

the love of God.

He gave His life for us.

And we too must give our

life for our brethren.

Father - where are the hosts?

- Someone has taken them.

- You've forgotten to bless the hosts.

- I did it this morning.

- This is empty too. Someone has stolen them.

Dear brethren, something very strange

and incredible has happened.

Those wishing to receive communion

will have to wait until tomorrow.

- But...

- They've stolen even consecrated hosts.

- It's a sign.

- Yes.

It's a bad start.

Lord... why me?

Saint Ignatius said that the

best way to control overeating

if you're tempted to eat to excess,

is to fast.

Well, my friends: I shall fast.

- Voltrano, what do you mean?

- What I said.

We know you. You're hinting at

other forms of eating

No. In fact, I'm fasting.

I'm following the saint's advice.

Why don't you fast too?

And all of your faction?

Why don't we all fast?

It would also do us good.

Didn't we eat enough yesterday...

the day before yesterday?

With filial devotion...

Shall we continue to eat

as it was in the beginning,

is now and ever shall be,

world without end?

Those wanting to fast,

raise your hands.

Friends, here amongst us,

there are also people...

who've suffered hunger.

The others must fast. The others!

Who is this saint who's suffered hunger?

Tell us his name.

I had prepared a few words to

thank Don Gaetano...

for this opportunity to reflect

and to reconsider.

But...

I'll tear up what I wrote.

I'm tearing up everything,

as you can see.

No prepared speech.

Let's start from zero,

as we should.

I feel the time has come

to think back on the 30 years

during which we've led the country.

Thirty years...

during which we've carried

out a difficult, painful...

maybe agonising... agitation...

I mean reconciliation...

between the past, the future

and the present.

Between religion and political practices.

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