New fervor among young Italian Catholics: “I experimented with everything you can experiment with to find happiness. Now that I’ve left everything, I’ve found everything.” So says a 31-year-old Italian woman who took her final vows to become a cloistered nun. Sounds remarkably like Matthew 16:25: “whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” (from csmonitor.com)
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