Father Michael stared in disbelief.<\/p>\n
“Angela? What are you doing here?”<\/p>\n
The young nun smiled sweetly and took his hand.<\/p>\n
“I’m your reward, Father.”<\/p>\n
His jaw nearly hit the floor.<\/p>\n
“For me?”<\/p>\n
St. Peter nodded.<\/p>\n
“That’s right.”<\/p>\n
Father Michael’s heart raced.<\/p>\n
Forty years of service.<\/p>\n
Thousands of sermons.<\/p>\n
Countless confessions.<\/p>\n
And now this?<\/p>\n
He tried to remain dignified.<\/p>\n
“Well… I must admit, this is unexpected.”<\/p>\n
Angela laughed softly.<\/p>\n
“I was surprised too.”<\/p>\n
Father Michael straightened his robe and glanced at St. Peter.<\/p>\n
“Just so I understand… after all my years of faithful service, Heaven has decided to reward me with Sister Angela?”<\/p>\n
St. Peter burst out laughing.<\/p>\n
“Oh no, Father. You’ve got it backwards.”<\/p>\n
Father Michael blinked.<\/p>\n
“What do you mean?”<\/p>\n
St. Peter pointed at Angela and smiled.<\/p>\n
“You’re not her reward…”<\/strong><\/p>\n The Father frowned.<\/p>\n “Then what is going on?”<\/p>\n St. Peter grinned even wider.<\/p>\n “She’s the reward.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Father Michael looked confused.<\/p>\n “For whom?”<\/p>\n Angela smiled innocently.<\/p>\n Then St. Peter delivered the punchline:<\/p>\n “For putting up with your sermons every Sunday for forty years!”<\/strong><\/p>\n Father Michael stood speechless.<\/p>\n Angela couldn’t stop laughing.<\/p>\n And just before Father Michael woke up, he heard St. Peter shout:<\/p>\n “Don’t worry, Father\u2014we’ve got a support group up here for former parishioners too!”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Father Michael stared in disbelief. “Angela? What are you doing here?” The young nun smiled sweetly and took his hand. “I’m your reward, Father.” His jaw nearly hit the floor. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readfullstory168.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}