July 5, 2007
Focus: Back from Sunny Italy
Dear Friend,
After two weeks in Italy it is good to be back in the old USA.
My first week was spent studying at the Vatican with a group of 15 priests who were on sabbatical there ten years ago. We had speakers on the topics of Grace, Eucharist and Morality. It was an extremely enlightening week. The high point for me came when I was asked to be the main celebrant in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica over the very tomb of St. Peter.
The second week was spent touring towns on the Adriatic and in the Province of Tuscany. From Rome we joined up with some lay friends and the 18 of us drove to Assisi, Pesaro, Rimini, Loretto, San Marino, Bologna, Montecatini, Florence, San Gimignano, Sienna and finally back to Rome. I would have to say that the highlight of this leg of the trip was to see the actual house of the Blessed Virgin Mary transported from Nazareth to Loretto by the Angelini Family to save it from desecration by the Moors.
My week back has been very busy with four funerals and lots of pastoral care. It was a memorable time away.
Fondly,
Father Nick Amato
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