Sister Cristina: Put your dreams in the hands of Jesus!

It seems to be surreal, but the winner of the recent Italian talent show “The Voice” was an eager, Sicilian nun from the Ursuline order; Cristina Succia. More recently, Sister Cristina visited Hungary to sing on the second Forráspont-day, an event that is playing a more and more important role in Hungarian Catholic spirituality. She gave an exclusive interview to the weekly Magyar Hang.

– How did you get from entering the Ursuline order to here, the day before your Budapest concert?

– There are questions to be answered only by God.

– Do you think it is the part of a divine plan that you stand here now and that you won The Voice recently?

– Absolutely. This is “The Path” for me. I was invited by Jesus onto the stage; my vocation was given there and He brought me back there. An organiser of the talent show called the prioress of my congregation and asked permission for me to take part in the show, because they had heard me singing somewhere before. At first, the prioress was worried about me as I was the youngest in the congregation, but later she changed her mind and said: “Somebody is knocking on our door and we were invited to go out to the people. That makes it clear that this is the plan of God.”

We have not sought the opportunity instead somebody knocked on our door and we said yes. The prioress comes with me everywhere. She escorted me at the recording of my album, too. I give thanks to God that I am understood and supported in my community.

– You often speak about your mission; the evangelisation. What do you mean by this? What can be achieved by evangelisation? What is the goal? In other words, what can be the success at the end of this journey that would make you confident and could say that the Lord had given this talent to the right person?

– When I leave the stage and meet the audience it happens quite frequently that they say: “I arrived here in a bad mood, full of fears, but you gave my power back”. And I know that it was not me, but Our Lord God and I was just the agent. Once a little girl told her mother after she heard me singing that it might not be so bad to be a nun. I have plenty of experience like this.

– In late August or in September we reported the launching of the one-year countdown for the International Eucharistic Congress. What do you know about it?

– Formerly, I had not known anything about the Eucharistic Congress. I came across it by taking part in one of its side events in Hungary. I call on my fellow Italian citizens to join the event next year, as where Jesus is, people must be invited there.

– What is the main message of your mission?

– There are many. We should never give up dreaming! And put our dreams in the hands of Jesus. It is only Jesus who is able to accomplish fantastic things in our lives.

Hungarian-Italian interpretation for this interview was provided by Father Kornél Fábry, Secretary General of the International Eucharistic Congress.