Maria Giura

Written as a personal memoir on answering to God's call to dedicate her life to Him, Maria Giura is struggling with understandable feelings for a handsome Catholic priest, father James Infanzi, and his libido and double life. Promiscuity instead of celibacy is the leitmotiv throughout this book in which ten years are needed to alternate between attracting and distracting, unraveling relational complexities, while going through the initiation stages of becoming a nun.

The reader is taken along a very personal, honest and touching coming of age. Both partners make their choices, where right or wrong can be black and white, but sometimes shades of grey too. Convictions and church culture often are at odds with human desires, tempted souls, and a weak flesh. Celibate: A Memoir is ultimately a story about surrender, forgiveness, and facing one’s deepest needs.… (altro)

When she was a young woman, Maria Giura fell in love with a Catholic priest. In her new memoir, Celibate, Giura writes about their complicated, angry relationship and how it led her to finally find her true calling.

In working through her history with Father Infanzi, Giura writes about how she began to appreciate that neither partner in their relationship was all right or all wrong; everyone brings emotional wounds from youth into adult relationships. Unlike what she felt at the time, Giura came to understand that she was not a victim of circumstance or even God’s will, but that she had choices.

Writing her book – and figuring out the real truth about her relationship with the priest, her mother, others close to her, and her relationship with God – helped Giura grow up. Giura tells her story with guts and grace.… (altro)