Father Fábio de Melo made emotional revelations about his family last Friday (27) on the program Conversa com Bial.
In his new book “Life Is Cruel, Ana Maria: Imaginary Dialogues With My Mother,” the priest writes to his mother, who died in 2021 as a result of Covid19. “The book is mostly about my difficulties in denying what my mother often believed about me. That I was a ready man, that nothing would shake me. It’s always been that way,” he said.
“Whenever I thought about my mother’s death, I knew it would be the worst day of my life. So I actually experienced the worst day of my life. And when I had with her the final experience of this finitude, of my relationship with her.” “I also experienced liberation. I can die now,” he said.
Father Fábio also reported that he saw his mother burying two daughters and visiting a son in prison, so he knew there was a lot of suffering in his family. “When she died, the first thing I thought was, ‘Okay, if I don’t want to be happy now, I don’t have to be happy anymore,'” he said. “Of course it’s not my option, but it’s actually a reality that presented itself to me,” he said.
In the conversation he also talked about his father, who had problems with alcohol. “My alcoholic father was a completely different man than the sober man we had on a daily basis,” he revealed.
“My father was a beautiful, upright man with a noble soul. But when he drank… That’s something I, as a priest, insist on very much in my sermons. Alcohol destroyed my house, it continues to destroy it because it is still a problem in the lives of some brothers”.
“It’s genetic, I have no doubt about it. If I gave myself the right to drink from time to time, I’m afraid I would turn into my father,” he said.
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