Delphine Wespiser, television host and former Miss France, participated in the program “Bienvenue au Monastère” broadcast on C8. The young woman confided that she had had an intense spiritual experience, far from the noise of the world.
Many Catholics are frightened by the idea of spending several days in total silence, far from the technologies of the modern world. However, this is the experience offered by a new reality TV show currently broadcast on C8, in which Delphine Wespiser, ex-Miss France and columnist in the show “Touche pas à mon poste”, participated. In “Welcome to the Monastery ”, she is one of the six personalities who spent a week at the Saint-Dominique de Corbara convent in Corsica, where there are brothers of Saint John. The young woman, more accustomed to the lights of TV sets than to the simplicity of a monastic cell, said she particularly enjoyed the experience. “It was amazing, so much so that after a week, when my phone was returned to me and the experience ended, I cried my eyes out,” said she explained in an interview broadcast on January 11 on TV Magazine .
“I didn’t want to go back”
The relevance of this program – where no one speaks – can be questioned, but Delphine Wespiser defends it. “It’s soft, it’s pleasant and at the same time it’s crunchy. We see adults who behave like children because we are always looking at each other, with a twitching eye. We always want to burst out laughing. » If she admits that it was sometimes difficult not to discuss or laugh with her comrades on the show, the ex-Miss France has acquired a taste for the silence which soothes the heart and soul. “I didn’t want to go back, go back to the phone and that life,” she assures. However, retirement is not one without some renunciations, to which the young woman had to force herself. “After 3 days, I asked Brother Baudoin if I could have some chocolate,” she confesses, smiling. “For me the table is really a moment of conviviality where we eat, we drink, we talk, we laugh, and there we couldn’t make the pleasure last and it was a little frustrating for me.”
In no way traumatized, Delphine Wespiser explains that the experience bore fruit in her daily life. “With the show, I regained time for prayer and that really pleases me,” explains the woman who has not practiced since adolescence. If the young woman is still searching for herself on a spiritual level, she does not regret having tried the experience of silent retirement. His testimony could well end up convincing those who are still hesitant to get started.
