Rome & Assisi, Italy, Meriden, CT.

A group of young people from the Meriden center who have been meeting together since they were children experienced Holy Week with the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist in Rome and Assisi. While in Rome they participated in the Holy Father’s Palm Sunday liturgy during which two of the youth received communion from the Holy Father and four of them were invited to carry palms in the procession. Sisters from the Meriden and Houston centers accompanied the young people on their pilgrimage.