Ses recounts his experience on the first ever Steubenville vacation, held over a long weekend earlier this summer. Friends played games, listened to presentations, formed friendships, prayed, and shared life together.
Seeing all these people come together for a weekend of rest, but also connection and education, filled me with a sense of feeling alive. In addition to the community from Steubenville, friends also joined from New York and Washington D.C.
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Peggy shares her experience of following a desire to attend an iconography school in Seriate, Italy and discovering how much she is loved within her passion for writing icons.
This experience begins with my love and study of iconography. I have attended an icon school yearly in the US with a very serious and devoted teacher. After 11 years and the disruption of Covid, my longing began to grow for something even more. I really d...
Thousands of women fleeing, abandoned, abused. How to help them find meaning? The story of Sister Azezet Kidane: “Looking at them, God has become even more familiar to me”
This story–which opened the 2025 Rimini Meeting–would appear to be one of failure. Last January, in Tel Aviv, Kuchinate (“crochet”, in Tigrinya), a women’s cooperative that for twelve years had been employing and supporting the lives of over 450 African w...
John tells the story of how he encountered the life of Enzo Piccinni, first through reading about him in Dearest Friend, and then on pilgrimage to his tomb.
Though Enzo died many years before I was born, I have been given the exciting and provoking experience of having met and continuing to meet him through the impact he had on the lives of others through stories told of a uniquely mysterious man. At the New ...
Members from the Miami community participate in a screening of Hope Reborn, a film that shares the experience of prayer, work, and love within Comunità Cenacolo
Several months ago, the CL Community in Miami received a special invitation from our friends from Comunità Cenacolo to attend the US premiere of the movie Hope Reborn.
Hope Reborn is a full-length, faith-based film about Comunità Cenacolo, a spiritua...
