Chapter 34

The church had a very high ceiling, and in it you could see several religious paintings, all showing angels and saints on the banks of rivers and beautiful landscapes. The windows were covered by a glass pane with paintings against the glass, illuminating the church with a color effect for each piece of colored glass and combined to generate drawings. At the altar, an image of Jesus on the cross was positioned right in the center of the entire church, high. Still on the altar, on one side was a kind of playpen with chairs, and on the other side some basic instruments, such as keyboard, for them to play when the time came. A man stepped forward to sit in front of the keyboard, turning in front of the space with a microphone in front of all of us. The priest finally approached, and the whole church got up, even me.

The mass was much faster than I thought. In an hour the priest made everyone join hands to pray for the souls of those who are gone, a group of nuns entered through a