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FATHER PAUL HILL: Bless me, Lord, for I have sinned. No, that's not right. Bless me, Lord, for I am going to sin. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to introduce myself to the parish and lie to them about Monsignor John Pruitt. A lie directly, not a lie by omission. I won't tell them that John Pruitt was a lot sicker than they thought when they sent him on that trip. And he wandered from his tour group frequently. He spent hours lost in Jerusalem that first day, and that he was terrified. This wasn't a sort of odd senior moment. No, this was a man in the grips of dementia, more advanced than anyone in the parish had admitted even to themselves. A man who had… overstayed his allotted time on this Earth. I'm not gonna tell them any of that. I'll say he's recovering in a hospital on the mainland. That things may still go back to normal, that he may yet be the same as they remember. That he may yet be the man, the leader, the shepherd they have grown to love over so many years. I am going to tell them this lie for their benefit, so that when it starts, they'll be ready. For what's to come. For the miracles that are to come.