Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer's night at the gate of a little Franciscan cloister that sat on the top of a high hill in the land of Spain. "It's a baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth in water and gave...
...Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that she had a boy the same age as Marcelino, and that his name was Manuel. Marcelino could not take his eyes off her. At last he said wonderingly. "You're very beautiful." After that Marcelino was some times strangely silent. One day he asked Brother Cookie. "Does everybody have a mother?" "Of course...
...with an invisible companion he called Manuel. And when it came to getting into trouble, two heads seemed to be better than one. Rags on the bell clapper, goats in the chapel, lizards in the vegetable dish-there seemed to be no end to the boy's devilment. One day Brother Cookie determined to put an end to it. "See that staircase," he told Marcelino. "You must never go up it. Never! If The Big Man up there sees you, he'll take you away-forever!" Marcelino was frightened, but he was brave too. and more than anything...
...sound like the sound of a great stone being rolled away, and the sound was the voice of The Big Man. "You are not afraid of me?" he asked. Marcelino smiled. "You know who I am?" And Marcelino said simply, "Yes. You are the Lord." "You are a good boy," The Big Man said, "and I thank you. From this day you shall be called Marcelino of the Bread and Wine...
After that Marcelino went to see the Lord every day. When it thundered, he went to calm the Lord's fears; when it was cold, he brought him a blanket. One day the Lord came down from the cross and sat in a chair, and took the boy on his lap. "What are mothers like?" Marcelino asked. And the Lord said, ''They give, Marcelino, all the time. Everything, in full measure." Then Marcelino said, "I want to see my mother . . . and yours too, afterwards." And the Lord replied, "You will have to go to sleep...