Get Thee to a Nunnery
Mary Ward was shaking and sobbing. It couldn't be true, it just couldn't be true, it just couldn't. She looked again at the letter from Her Majesty's Armed Forces." We regret to inform you…" He's gone forever. He was the only one for me, she thought. Why did I tell the Armed Forces they should contact me, if anything happened to my fiancé? It would have been easier to hear the news from her prospective in laws. She felt as though she could stay in the school dormitory forever. She heard knocking.
"Go away!" The door opened. The head of her house Sr. Mary Peter walked in noticing her pupil was in great despair.
"Mary, my dear, what's wrong, my child?"
Mary didn't want to talk, so she shoved the letter into Sr. Mary Peter's hands.
"Oh my dear, I'm so sorry. Would you like a hug?" Sr. Mary Peter was tearing up as she read the tragic news.
Mary nodded and hugged the kind nun.
"Here, take a handkerchief." Mary did.
"I don't want to go to the graduation ceremony tomorrow. The headmistress can give me my diploma. I want to stay here and pray, to be alone, forever and ever."
"Mary, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You can't stay here forever." Sr. Mary Peter was concerned for her pupil.
"Must I attend the graduation ceremony?"
"Yes, Mary. I am here if you need to talk and so are the other Sisters and Father Smith, if you need to. You missed dinner."
"I'm not hungry!"
"I'll bring you some food. I can't let you go hungry."
"Yes, Sister."
"Mary are you all right? We missed you at dinner." Her kind and studious roommate, Catherine asked as she walked into the room.
"Please, just let me be!" Mary snapped.
"Mary I was going to the chapel. Do you want to come and pray there with me?"
"Yes, Sister."
Once at the chapel Mary prayed the Rosary and recited every Latin Hymn, chat and liturgical reading she knew. She was afraid, alone and without a purpose. She didn't know how she could go on with her life.