Friday, April
3, 2009
Italian Nun, Former 20 year Lap
Dancer
THE ANNOTICO REPORT
The Lord works in Mysterious Ways
:)
Like a prayer: The Italian Nun who
spent 20 years as a Lapdancer
ANSA
By Nick Pisa
April 3, 2009
An Italian nun has revealed how she
renounced 20 years as a lapdancer to join a convent.
Anna
Nobili, 38, spent two decades dancing for men in seedy clubs but then decided
she wanted more from life and joined the Sister Workers of the Holy House
of Nazareth order.
And now she is putting her past life
as a dancer to use as a 'ballerina for God' in a show for cardinals and
bishops called Holy Dance dedicated to episodes from the Bible.
Dancer for God: Anna Nobili (pictured
now) spent 20 years as a lapdancer
Sister Nobili, who is originally
from Milan, turned to a life of spirituality after being 'inspired' during
a visit to the shrine of St Francis at Assisi, Italy.
She said:'I was throwing away my
life dancing for men. I was throwing away my life in clubs.
'There was sex without love and there
was drugs, I was being used as a drug by people who wanted to see me dance.
'But now my life has changed , I
have been reborn, I still dance, I have never given up dancing but now
I dance for God.
'All my steps and moves, all my choreography
is dedicated to Him - I am like St Paul who was converted on the road to
Damascus.
'Now I use dance as a form of prayer
- through dance I enter into harmony with the Word of God.'
She added: 'I really liked my old
life - I was at the centre of looks but then I realised I was throwing
my life, my body and my sexuality away.
'The nights were dark they were filled
with evil, with sex and with drugs.
Anna now puts on shows for cardinals
and bishops called Holy Dance which is inspired by stories from the Bible
'I would dance nonstop in another
disco. I would even go to places outside Milan, for example, Amsterdam,
where I would stay for four or five days.
'Then one day I went to Assisi and
I was struck by how beautiful the sky was.
'I saw something fluorescent within
the clouds, a cascade of coloour and I felt the presence of God, the Creator.
'I started dancing and people were
looking at me - I got on the train back to Milan and I felt as if God was
in me.
'It was such an emotional moment
- when I looked at myself in the train toilet mirror I didn't recognise
myself.
'It was a transfiguration - I danced
in the club one more night and the men were just looking at me, trying
to take me to bed and I knew that was my goodbye.
'I called my boss and I said to him
I found a new clean treasure and it was God.'
Sister Anna is due to dance on Tuesday
at the Holy Cross in Jerusalem Basilica in Rome on Tuesday where among
the guests will be archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican's
Cultural Department.
The dance programme is called La
Bibbia Giorno e Notte (The Bible Night and Day)
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