Pilgrimage to Assisi

Why a Pilgrimage … in Italy


Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the
Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two
great "figures" who have stirred the perpetual engine of humble
and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who
are suffering from an existential aridity.


Thanks to these suppositions, the wish to offer a Pilgrimage was
born aimed at fulfilling the new spiritual requirement.
Differently from the past, it is a research of "movement" where
the pilgrim wants to explore in primis original experiences just
to open himself to the compassion of that Love "that moves the
sun and the other stars".


Apparently the purpose of the pilgrim is to walk to Assisi, but
in reality "he advances towards himself" to join the Divine
within. The Pilgrimage to Assisi is not a recognised pilgrimage
as you might suppose, but it is the fusion of many other short
traditional pilgrimages, that already existed in the local sphere
(See: Assisi, La Verna, Casella, Cerbaiolo, Montecasale,
Montepaolo). These ways are linked to peculiar devotions and,
lived in this spiritual dimension again, will give a new surge to
the interior research, renewing the essence of Francisco's
doctrine. So it should be, not only the stones to testify to the
stranger His Teaching, but also the renewal of the original
Franciscan fraternity along the pilgrimage and in the community
of Assisi itself.

The town of Assisi will be raised as a "Landmark of Universal
Reference" for all men of goodwill, overcoming in this way any
distinction of Culture and Belief in syntony with the Fundamental
Principles of every True Religion.



Giordano
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www.camminodiassisi.it





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