The MoChi (Altar Server Movement) experience resumes with renewed vigor after the summer break. This experience, of course, isn't limited to the monthly meetings at the seminary and the Diocesan Day. In early September, some of the older altar servers and I spent three intense days of pilgrimage to Assisi, following in the footsteps of Saint Francis, Saint Clare, and Saint Charles Acutis.
We had the opportunity to visit many places, all significant to Francis's life: from the Porziuncola to San Damiano, from the Eremo delle Carceri to the Basilicas of Saint Francis and Saint Clare. In this context, our meetings with Friars Luca and Matteo were invaluable. With their explanations and life stories, they fully introduced us to the Franciscan spirituality that characterizes these places. Their words, along with moments of meditation and prayer, as well as moments of mutual sharing, helped us experience this experience not just as a trip, but as a true pilgrimage. The brotherhood among us also contributed greatly to this. During our stay, we were self-managed guests in a religious facility: the simple moments of daily life and service spent preparing meals, cleaning, and enjoying fraternal conviviality made us feel truly at home, as happens during our meetings in the seminary.
At the end of the pilgrimage, we visited the Shrine of the Renunciation, where the body of Carlo Acutis rests, on the very morning he was proclaimed a saint by the Pope in Rome. He is a figure particularly dear to us, whom we had already begun to get to know during some meetings last year. We have therefore entrusted him with the journey of this new year that is now beginning, and, once we return to Pavia, we have arranged for everyone to join us at the first meeting, which will be held in the Seminary on Friday, October 17th, along with a prayer for vocations and Holy Mass presided over at 6:00 PM by our bishop Corrado.
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