it Who it's for
Who Casa Kerigma is for
The houses welcome different people for different reasons. Here you find, for each, what you live, how long, with whom, what is asked and how to come.
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Seminarians and priests
Seminarians and candidates for ministry looking for a sober, concrete formation; priests and religious who need a time of rest, spiritual renewal and discernment.
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Young people and students
Young people and university students who want a strong experience of faith, service and community, also within a period of study or research in Jerusalem, an ideal place to develop intercultural skills.
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Groups, parishes and families
Parishes, families, youth groups and associations seeking paths of prayer, listening to the Word and community renewal.
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Theological faculties and formation institutes
Theological faculties, seminaries, institutes of religious sciences and schools interested in study and research experiences in the places of the New Testament.
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For those who follow from afar
Masses for your intentions, the message of the day, the lectio and the books born in the houses.
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The heart
Not a holiday home: a fraternal, Upper Room life
Casa Kerigma is neither a holiday home nor a place of mere hospitality. It is a house where, for a few days, one lives a fraternal, “Upper Room” life, like the apostles with Mary after Easter: listening to the Word, celebrating the Eucharist, eating and working together, going out to the places of the Gospel and, in the evening, sharing what each one has received.
One comes to rediscover one's vocation, to recover from the fatigue of ministry, study and life, to regain a taste for the essential and go home with new eyes. Whoever arrives is not a customer but a brother or sister entering a temporary family, with the rule of a shared life.
The week and the day
The programme, in brief
The pilgrim's typical week
Seven days at Casa Kerigma Jerusalem, on the events of the Upper Room, in the places where they happened.
First day
Listening to the kerygma, on the Mount of Olives
Second day
The discourses at the Temple, the pool of Saint Anne
Third day
Gehenna; the Upper Room: the Eucharist and the washing of feet
Fourth day
Passion and solitude: Gethsemane, Gallicantu
Fifth day
The Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre
Sixth day
The Consoler, the nascent Church, Mary
Seventh day
The mandate, the Ascension, the mission
A day at Casa Kerigma
A simple rhythm, between prayer, holy places and fraternal life.
- Lauds and Holy Mass now
- Breakfast now
- Morning activities now
- Preparing lunch now
- Shared lunch now
- Rest now
- Personal time and afternoon activities now
- Community prayer now
- Preparing dinner now
- Community dinner now
- Fraternity now
- Compline now
In common
What one lives, in every proposal
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The Word, every day
The message of the day on the readings and Fr Valerio's biblical lectio, from Jerusalem.
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The events of the Upper Room
The Eucharist as memorial, the washing of feet as a style, prayer for those who do not believe, the mandate to proclaim.
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Fraternal life
A house, not a hotel: meals prepared together, service, silence, sharing with those who live there all year round.
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The places of salvation
Jerusalem, school of discipleship and consolation; Ephesus, school of apostolic communion.