The story I’m talking about, this time, is a journey into the human soul, into faith, in the most profound and apparently incomprehensible thing there can be: the choice of seclusion. Someone will remember the video made for Repubblica, the interview with Sister Letizia, the centenary nun of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Vergini, in Bitonto. On that occasion I had a wonderful chat with Sister Maria Carmela, the mother abbess of the monastery and I specifically asked her why she chose the cloister. Thanks to Sister Maria Carmela, and to Nicola Pice to whom I am grateful for having introduced and accompanied me into this world, I understood many things but above all I was able to understand, in love as I am with freedom, that even deciding to enter a monastery and staying there for a lifetime can be a choice of serenity and joy. Every decision in everyday life involves renunciations or choices and although at the beginning I was a little prejudiced, I must admit, I realized once again that the only thing wrong in life is not listening to that call that we have inside: whether it is of our heart or of God.
Fuori Rotta Italia
Sosandra, a 2500 year long history. Story of the archaeological excavation on the island of Sant’Eufemia.