Well-known actress Edita Majić on the peak of her reputation she determined to surrender her profession and devoted herself to monastic life.
Particularly, she didn’t promote for a very long time, and after greater than a decade spent in a closed monastery, she determined to serve God.
The previous actress went to the monastery of St. Josip within the Spanish metropolis of Avila, the place she turned a nun.
– That assembly with God occurred unexpectedly, like a flash, an surprising present of his love that pours into your being, completely, unexpectedly, irresistibly and to the tip. Instantly every part turned clear to me. I bought solutions to all of the questions – the Croatian actress described her transformation in 2003.
The general public in Croatia was shocked by her resolution, which occurred in a single day. It was not clear to anybody why she determined to surrender every part.
Her life was fully totally different from on a regular basis: she had no heating in her room, no scorching water, she sleeps in cells on straw beds, and spends many of the 12 months in fasting and prayer.
In an interview, Edita defined how she went to the Carmelites dissatisfied with the superficiality of the life she lived.
– What’s the purpose value dwelling for? If it’s solely this exterior… To stay these few years as fantastically as attainable, after which disappear into nothingness, with a physique coated with worms in some chilly grave… then it’s higher to not exist in any respect – Edita stated and added that in that interval of questioning she felt a non secular name.
As defined by father Mamić, there are two sorts – the extra conventional one, in neighborhood with different hermits who stay in desert monasteries or abbeys, and the opposite kind was chosen by sister Edita and that’s the solitary lifestyle.
– Saint Edita lives an anchorite lifestyle, so in full solitude. From what I heard, she went to at least one such place, a forest glade in Spain. It’s clear that somebody decides to withdraw into solitude due to a larger reference to God – says father Vinko Mamić for “Jutarnji.hr”.
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