St. Peter's Rome EYC

After the rain passed, it was a beautiful night for a grill out! Thank you to Eli, John, Matt, and David for manning the grills and Callie for leading us in compline.

Thank you, St. Peter’s, for all of your donations for Northwest Georgia Hunger Ministries!! We’re going to keep the food drive open and continue to deliver donations. Feel free to drop off in Daniel hall any time.

Today, June 24th, was a fun filled day.
We all woke up bright and early and quickly made our way to the Eremo delle Carceri. It is now a monastery built on top of the caves Saint Francis would visit to write and pray. There, we met brother Mateo, who told us everything there was to know about Saint Francis‘s history in Assisi.
To me, the thing he said that stood out the most was the story of Saint Francis and the l***r. Mateo read to us from Saint Francis’s writings and Francis had written something that loosely translates to:
“I was on my horse, and he[the l***r] was on foot. It was God that brought us together to meet.”
That really stood out to me because at the time l***rs were considered ‘lesser’ by society, but God doesn’t condemn them - he loves them all the same.
Then, after hiking a few of the trails and eating a quick lunch, we made our way back into town.
We went to see the Basilica de Santa Chaira and were able to see the original San Damiano Cross, which was the original cross that Saint Francis was praying to when God spoke to him and told him to rebuild his church.
From there we moved onto the Assisi Cathedral, which was created in honor of San Rufino, who was the first bishop of Assisi. We were able to climb to the top of the bell tower, and it was pretty amazing to see the whole city spread out below us.
We finished up our day with a tour of San Rufino’s crypt and saw some artwork featuring Saint Francis and Saint Claire.
Overall this day has been amazing and I am so excited to see what is in store for us the rest of the week!!
Caroline Sawhill