What's the story of the two sisters who came out of the monastery and lived in Jirisan Mountain?
KBS1 'Human Theater', which aired on the 12th, depicts the story of sisters Ribe and Enoch, who were nuns.
Sancheong, Gyeongsangnam-do, at the foot of Jirisan Mountain. Ribe (63) and Enoch (58), who are sweating in the summer heat, moving trees and sawing. Every time the sisters touch each other, the garden becomes more tidy. I try to stop for a moment in front of the statue of Mary in a garden... Libe lived as a nun for 30 years and Enoch for 20 years. Why did Ribe and Enoch, the sisters who came to Sancheong after taking off their nuns' uniforms seven years ago, leave the monastery and come here?
Liebe was a responsible eldest daughter. As the eldest of four siblings, he worked during the day and went to night high school at night, helping to manage a poor family. Even at a young age, I wanted to take care of my family. At the same time, I used to ask the fundamental question of what it is to truly help someone. Twenty-nine, in search of the answer, Reeve entered the containment coronal monastery. A self-sufficient, only prayerful life away from the world. 'I wish my daughter lived a normal life...' My mother cried a lot. She was the eldest daughter who relied on her more than anyone else. Looking at the books left by her sister who became a nun, her younger brother Enoch, who was special to her sister, wanted to go on the road of the capital with her while she was a kindergarten teacher. Ten years later, like her sister, Enoch became a nun and served for a long time as the head of the cathedral's kindergarten. The more responsible he was for his job, the more distant he was from his life, where he wanted to live in prayer, and skepticism came. Whenever my worries deepened, I went to visit my sister in the lockdown monastery. My older sister Ribe, who was heartbroken to see her younger brother, took off her nun's uniform together seven years ago with the feeling that she could go on the capital's path, whether inside or outside the monastery.
By the time I got out of the monastery, I noticed that my younger brother Enoch had something wrong with his body. A place where Enoch, who even had surgery, could heal, took off his nun's uniform, but he needed space to go the way of composition. But I've lived as a nun for decades, and there's no way I have money. It was difficult to find the house where a monk lived in Sancheong on Jirisan Mountain with a loan of 'Youngchigi'. After that, the walls of reality the sisters faced were more than imagined. Her older sister, Libe, went around picking honey, making dried persimmons and learning professional cleaning days, while Enoch worked as a daycare center teacher for a year with an operated body and made and sold handmade soap. There was no easy answer to what to do to live as an old man and make a good life.
Then, this spring, the sisters opened a two-dong guest house after much consideration. It's still in the early days of business, so I used the money to buy an air conditioner and a dryer when I got a reservation fee for a guest house. Income is limited, but spending is not an answer if you look at the household books and the demand for loans coming in every month. How do we solve this difficulty? The way is to cheer up again, sweep and clean the guest house, garden and build their own fence. Even if you run to the emergency room after being stung by a wasp while weeding, forget about the pain from sweet patbingsu and prepare wild flowers to welcome guests. The welcome is also briefly called from Busan. Ribe runs to Busan at the news that her mother is sick. Embracing an elderly mother who missed the long time while her daughters were in the monastery. Ribe and Enoch in Jirisan have dreams. A house of prayer where you stay and heal with your family, a place where people meet and communicate. That's how they dream of creating their own heaven outside the monastery. With that wish, Ribe and Enoch live, love and pray today.
