Rome (Italy). The fourth edition of the itinerant Via Lucis will take place from 20 August to 3 September 2022, the journey organized by the Tucum Odv Association, inserted within the Project Tucum, in collaboration with Terra e Missione and with the Mission Festival, which arises from the desire to meet the poorest who live in the cities, to bring them the hope of the Gospel and of the Risen Christ.
“From Station to Station” is the theme of the 2022 edition, proposed to young people aged 18 to 35, who will travel 3,000 km to reach by train, day after day, the central stations of 14 cities in Italy, hosted by 14 missionary Institutes and parishes. Each stage will be accompanied by the presentation of a “Saint next door, a young witness of the faith”, who lived or passed through that region. Their testimony will be an exhortation to follow an authentic and courageous path of Christian life.
In one of the stages, the young people who will be able to take part in workshops, moments of service and testimonies, putting on the table all the experience, values, and charisma of the various realities involved, will be hosted by the Salesian Family and will live the evening at St. John Bosco of Taranto.
Rome will be the first city to be touched by the “Via Lucis itinerant”, where the participants will be guests of the Sisters of Charity and the Consolata Missionaries. The second stage will be held in Naples by the Jesuit fathers, and then move on to Taranto, the southernmost stage of the Via Lucis, and then to Bari, in the San Pasquale Parish.
The journey will continue towards Foggia, which will see the collaboration of the Friars Minor, and then to Pescara, with the testimony of the Parish of St. Paul, up to the intermediate stage which will be held on August 27 in Assisi, where young people will experience a time of prayer and contemplation together with the Benedictine nuns. Hence the arrival in Ravenna on 28 August, by the Giuseppini del Murialdo, to then touch the cities of Padua, Parma, and Piacenza, where the Comboni missionaries, the Xaverian Family, and the Scalabrine Missionary Sisters respectively will welcome the group.
In Milan the stop will be in the Missionary Center of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), while in Genoa the testimonies of the missionaries of the SMA – the Society of African Missions will be heard. Turin will be the final destination of the Via Lucis, where young people will be able to share the emotions of the intense journey and experience a time of celebration and fraternity together with the Focolari Movement.
Each stage will be divided into three moments: a space for witness, a closeness laboratory in the various railway stations, and a moment of Eucharistic adoration, which will be accompanied by the presentation of a “next door saint”.
“They are young people of our time who have believed in the Gospel, – says the creator of the project, Giandonato Salvia – reminding us that the Christian faith can be fully lived at any age. The same faith that we want to transmit with joy to our peers and to the poorest we will meet in the various cities, to whom we will make ourselves present in the simplicity of a word of comfort, a caress, some smiles in the name of Jesus.”
To participate, it is necessary to register, by 7 August 2022, at the following link:
https://bit.ly/iscrizioni-Via-Lucis-2022
For more information: www.tucum.it
