It was a time of getting to know each other, intense sharing and learning, working and praying together.
During pilgrimages in and around Rome the could encounter the Saints: St. Benedict and Scholastica, St. Peter and Paul, St. Cecilia and many more, could walk the ways they walked, breathe the air they breathed…
Being together as an international group in an international community gave them the chance
to practice intercultural living.
We are one – this means
that we really understand one another,
that we speak slowly,
that we listen carefully,
that we ask, whenever we do not understand,
that we have patience.