Night pilgrimage of young people to the Speco di Narni for the Feast of San Francesco

In the middle of the night to pray is the traditional pilgrimage on foot from Narni to the Franciscan Speco of Sant’Urbano which, on the occasion of the Feast of St. Francis, is proposed by the young people of the Youth Ministry service of the Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia and by the Franciscan Friars. The pilgrimage will start on the evening of 3 October at 10.30 pm from the church of San Francesco di Narni and will end at 4 am on Tuesday 4 October at the Speco di Sant’Urbano with the celebration presided over by the vicar general Monsignor Salvatore Ferdinandi in the small hermitage where Francis stayed and performed miracles. Celebration which will also be joined by other faithful who do not take part in the journey on foot.

The pilgrimage in the night winds along a path of fifteen kilometers that separate Narni from the Franciscan Speco, a silent path interspersed with prayers and songs, along the winding road through the woods and which opens up to suggestive views.

At the Speco, one of the most authentic Franciscan sanctuaries, founded by St. Francis in 1213, while he was making his apostolic tour in lower Umbria, on 3 October at 6 pm the solemn Holy Mass of transit, while on 4 October masses will be celebrated at 11 am and 18. The evening will end at 7.15 pm in the Cloister Between music, song and prayer Fabrizio Longaroni, trumpet and keyboard, Gustavo Gasperini violin and Rita Tomassoni soprano

Since St. Francis preached in Terni eight hundred years ago in 1214, the territory has not only been strongly influenced by Franciscan spirituality, art, culture, but has in turn offered a notable contribution to this movement, among which the Franciscan Protomartyrs are distinguished. , Blessed Antonio da Stroncone, the venerable Poor Clare Teresa Eletta Rivetti. At the Antonian sanctuary of the Franciscan Protomartyrs in Terni, on Monday 3 October at 6.30 pm there will be a solemn mass with the reading of the blessed transit of San Francesco which will be presided over by Bishop Francesco Antonio Soddu.

In addition to the pilgrimage to the Speco di Narni, there are also celebrations in Amelia and Terni

Also in Amelia the traditional pilgrimage on foot from Sambucetole to the Capuchin Convent of Amelia is renewed, Tuesday 4 October, organized by the parishes of Collicello, Frattuccia, Foce, Sambucetole, Macchie, Capitone and San Giuseppe da Leonessa. For the sixth year the initiative is organized by the local Proloco and the Sant’Eurosia celebrations committee and by the pastoral council of Sambucetole and the local associations. At 5 pm recitation of the Rosary and confessions, at 6 pm solemn celebration presided over by the vicar general of the diocese Monsignor Salvatore Ferdinandi vicar general of the diocese.

Other celebrations for the feast of the saint of Assisi will be held in the Franciscan churches of the diocese and in the Sanctuary of San Francesco in the center of Terni, where on October 4 at 6 pm there will be the solemn concelebration presided over by Bishop Francesco Soddu for the entry of the new parish priest. Fr Carlo Zucchetti and the new director of the Salesian oratory Fr Piero Lalla. Changes determined by the Salesian superiors with the transfer of Fr Guido Tessa and Don Claudio Tuveri who greeted the community last Sunday. The priests of Forania will be present at the celebration, with the participation of the Polyphonic Choir Saint Francis.

Monday 3 October at 9 pm at the Sanctuary of San Francesco di Terni, organized by the group Assisi In The Wind, the seventh edition of the Feast of My Word dedicated to the transit of St. Francis. The title of the event, I am the Death of Death – Lauds and stories in memory of the Transit of the Poverello of Assisi Saint Francis. Excerpts from Franciscan sources and from the Divine Comedy will be read.