How to perceive the use of "Father called..." below
" I rolled back to the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning"
I don't know why use "Father called" and I even don't know if a priest would do that?

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How to perceive the use of "Father called..." below
" I rolled back to the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning"
 I don't know why use "Father called" and I even don't know if a priest would do that?

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Tricias comment should have been an answer, I think. It's a good answer.
Perhaps to clarify?  I make a noise, then father says 'stop groaning'. I could then say 'he called my noise 'groaning'.'

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Without more context, it's hard to tell exactly. "Father" can refer to a priest or your dad, but that wasn't really your question here. Generally, it's lowercase (father) when referring to your dad and uppercase (Father) when referring to a religious figure.
 "To call" in this case means "to give a name to." For example, when a kid is naming their pet, they might say "I'll call you John" (="I will name you John"). Here, Father is giving the sound a name, he calls the sound groaning. The phrase "[I] made the noise that Father calls groaning" is basically a fancy way of saying "I groaned."
Hopefully that helps!

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Here Father = Dad, so it's not a priest, but simply the proper name for the author's father.

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