Adesso basta!: the Book of Sister Daniela Solustri on Multiple Sclerosis
TGR Rai Toscana interviewed Carmelite nun Sister Daniela Solustri, author of Adesso basta!, a book that presents her human and spiritual experience in light of the disease Multiple Sclerosis which she was diagnosed with 12 years ago.
Sister Daniela is a cloistered nun in a Carmelite convent in Cerreto di Sorano, in the province of Grosseto. In 2013, at the age of 42, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, which brought with it suffering, fear of losing autonomy, and the inevitable slowing down of life.
In the TGR Rai Toscana broadcast on Wednesday, January 8, the nun said she “took several months to understand that the Lord was calling me to a radical form of life,” referring to the disease that afflicts her.
From the onset of the illness, Sister Daniela, who holds a degree in literature, began writing, first for herself but went on to shape a book, Adesso basta! (It Is Enough Now!).
The book, published by Effigi, was presented Tuesday, January 7, at 5 p.m. in the Friuli Hall of the San Francesco Convent in Grosseto. Together with the author, publisher Mario Papalini and Fr. Juliano Luiz Silva spoke. The moderator was Giacomo D'Onofrio, director of the Social Communications Office of the Diocese of Grosseto.
“Stop feeling pity for yourself, don't let life, when it seemingly becomes hostile, be unliveable,” the nun says in the interview. She added, “Everything that happens in life can be experienced as an overwhelming problem, or as an opportunity to unleash new resources, and in my case I am trying to live life with more intensity.”
Click to see the interview from TGR Rai Toscana below ...