It is a decision full of courage and delicacy that of Elisa Curti. Or perhaps simply natural, who has always been underlined and finally emerged in all its clarity and serenity. The young woman, 25 yearsoriginally from San Fortunato della Collina (Perugia), entered the monastery on Easter Monday, welcomed by Clarisse di Sant’Erminio In Monteluce, a congregation that lives in cloister. We are looking for it for an interview a few days before the start of his postulate. “Elisa is very tired, for her they are very particular and intimate days,” a Clarissa replies to us. We do not insist, we respect the choice not to expose ourselves on the eve of such a countercurrent choice. The girl “outside” had everything: a boyfriend, a master’s degree in classical letters and a promising academic career, a beautiful family, friends. In short, we are talking about a woman in the midst of her life, with part of the projects carried out and still starts in your pocket.
“My heart continued to be attracted to the call of God, and I felt that my answer had to be to give me all of him, who loved me to give himself for me,” Elisa said to the Archdiocese of Perugia. «From an early age – he says – I received a Christian formation in the family. I regularly participated in the catechism in the parish and Sunday mass. But my life changed significantly when I understood that that God that he felt so much about was a living person, who wanted to enter into relationship with me and that, little by little, he became an indispensable presence in my days “.
The desire to cultivate a religious life remained secret for a long time but continued to emerge, between one exam and another, between one prayer and another. Increasingly clear.
“After a period of teenage rebellionGod, who is faithful, found a way to attract me again to himself – explains Elisa – and since then I seriously taken this research, starting a path of vocational discernment. In recent years I have received all that a person could apparently want: a loving family that never made me miss anything, one brilliant university careercrowned by the master’s degree, a boyfriend, solid and sincere friendship relationships, a life of faith lived intensely in the service in the parish. Still, all this could not fully fill my heart and fully satisfy my desires.
The reference to respond with greater generosity to the love of God, giving me all of me to the one who loved me and gave himself for me ‘has never passed away, on the contrary, he grew up more and more to become irresistible, to the point that, through so many small’ yes’, I came to ask to be able to enter the monastery of the Clarisse of Sant’Erminio. Pray for me ».