A Moveable Feast: Holy Year of Mercy pilgrimage UPDATED
Buongiorno a tutti! That greeting can mean only one thing: I am heading back to Italy on a Holy Year of Mercy pilgrimage for another fantastic combination of great food, beautiful scenery, and spiritual inspiration, and this time our chaplain will be my good friend and vicar general for the Diocese of Albany, Father David Berberian. Bonus: Our beloved tour guide from last October, Isabella, has signed on for this pilgrimage, so we will be in the very best hands.
We’ll be hitting some of the highlights from my last pilgrimage, with the addition of some must-see cities we missed the first time around. Here’s the brief run-down of where our Holy Year of Mercy Food & Faith in Italy tour will take us between May 15-26, 2016: Rome, Castel Gandolfo, Orvieto, Assisi, Siena, Bologna, the Emilia Romagna region, Padua, and Venice.
As if that’s not enough, this pilgrimage will occur during the Holy Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis. When we are in Rome, we will visit all four major basilicas, each of which will have its Holy Door open for this special jubilee. Pope Francis has called
Photo by Noah Poust
on all Catholics to make a pilgrimage to Rome or some other holy place during the Holy Year of Mercy and “allow our hearts to be touched.”
I hope you’ll consider joining me on this trip of a lifetime. You can look at the full brochure produced by Select International Tours by clicking HERE.
If you’d like to see previous posts on some of my favorite Italian cities, here are the links:
Assisi: Take two. Because one post is not enough to express my love for Assisi.
Rome. From my first-ever trip to Rome in 2010.
If you’d like to keep up with my Facebook page, Italy: A Feast for Body and Soul, click HERE and then click “like” once you’re there.
Ciao for now. I will be posting about my most recent visit to Rome, as well as some reflections from last fall’s journey to southern Italy in the weeks ahead. Although we won’t be heading south to Naples, Sorrento and Capri this time, I have to share those photos and thoughts for all of you armchair pilgrims out there. And I have no doubt those southern Italian destinations will be on the itinerary again down the road.
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