Keeping His Commandments

Desire, lust, love… You are not supposed to feel those things for a woman, and you are definitely not allowed to act on them when you are a Catholic priest. I had taken vows; vows that I have upheld for eight celibate years, and had made a promise to God that I swore I would never break. But then I met Eva, my stepmother’s estranged twenty-eight-year-old daughter, and she made me forget who I was. What I was. I prayed for guidance. I prayed for the strength not to give into temptation. My prayers went unanswered…or so I thought.