Max Laudadio of Striscia la Notizia: "As an atheist I rediscovered the faith"

The beloved correspondent of Striscia la Notizia, Max Laudadio, recounts his conversion, which took place thanks to a particular encounter.

It is not the first time that Laudadio, 51 years, recounts his relationship with faith, and has returned to talk about it these days, on the occasion of an interview for the newspaper "the truth“. He describes the period in which he found himself to the journalist At the fork, forced to have to choose between the inner growth , fallen into oblivion of wealth and success.

A risk he took at a time in his life when he had achieved everything he wanted, her dream job, a happy marriage and three children. Despite everything, however, she was not happy.

At the time, for Laudadio speaking of faith was useless, since it was a staunch atheist. Everything changed when her daughter, who attended the oratory and Don Silvano Lucioni, invited him to enter the church. A similar gesture did not even touch Max's brain, but Don Silvano, understanding his gesture, gave him a book by Ernesto Olivero entitled "for a Discalced Church“. One evening, she decided to read it, also out of respect for the priest and the reading enraptured him so much that he devoured the pages.

The following morning, he canceled all engagements and set out alone for Torino. Arrived atArsenal of Peace, she knocked, as she cried. She asked to see Olivero and shortly afterwards he was in his presence. The first thing Olivero said to him was "I love you".

The moment of Max Laudadio's conversion to the faith

Despite the meeting, the total conversion did not take place. But shortly after, Don Silvano convinced him to do theEucharist adoption. Woke up at 3 in the morning and forced to go to church on a stormy night, he wasn't exactly in the best of moods. But once you enter the church, here is thelighting. In a completely spontaneous way she got on her knees and prayed until morning.

The turning that changes his whole way of seeing life. From self-absorbed exhibitionist, comes to ask for the gift ofhumility. Then participate in a mission of 3 months, first in an orphanage in Haiti, then in a disabled center in Jordan, finally in Benin, in a small hospital.

And so Laudadio discovered true happiness, made in giving to others and always respecting 3 words: responsibility, mercy and joy.