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Angelika Pintířová – It Falls to Me from Heaven

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: November 28, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00

Czech nun Angelika Pintířová in conversation with men.

Padá mi to z nebe (It Falls to Me from Heaven) is a book of interviews with nun Angelika Pintířová of the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo conducted by journalists Tomáš Kutil and Jan Paulas. Sister Angelika straddles the world of the media, youth detention centres and theatre. She belongs to both the secular world and the cloistered community and enriches both universes.

How can a nun survive in a borstal? How does one examine a president? How should faith be discussed in today’s world? How was entering a secret order under the communists? Can a nun watch the ice hockey world championships, drink beer and be active on Facebook? Or even have her own radio show and be friendly with top sports people?

Angelika Pintířová answers these and more questions in the book-long interview. As well as pressing issues of the day, such as the decline in familial relationships, the legacy of communism in us and the education of juvenile delinquents, she also discusses her own life story. It includes a happy village childhood, amateur theatre, the secret life of a nun under communism, acting studies, travels to Siberia and riding a scooter. It is the story of a nun on whom challenges of all kinds of have always fallen from the heavens. And she has taken them up!

Sister Angelika will perform her own songs.

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