Integral Assisi
An Integral Pilgrimage to Assisi
December 2-12, 2010
Led by John Dupuy, Leslie Hershberger, and Rollie Stanich
“What we are looking for is what is looking.” Francis of Assisi
Welcome to the Home Page of our Integral Pilgrimage to Assisi. Assisi was St. Francis’ home when he was alive, and is still home to his presence. Assisi is a miracle. To go there with an open heart is to be touched by the love of God.
St. Francis is one of the the biggest souls our human family has ever produced. His love, humility, and pure joy transcends and includes the Catholic Church which he was a part of. Francis is a light for all peoples and traditions and a brother to all creatures and creation.
Why an Integral Pilgrimage? Because Integral helps us to re-member that which we, in our forgetfulness, have dis-membered. We go to Assisi to have that process of re-membering infused with the Love of God that is reflected so perfectly in the Life and Presence of St. Francis of Assisi. As we go to Assisi, Francis’ work becomes our work, his struggle our struggle. In the pages of this website you can sense into the work that we will do on our pilgrimage to Assisi. We will go as individuals and leave as family. If you are called to this pilgrimage, come. Come meditate with us, come and learn with us. Join us on the Holy road to Assisi, and let us pray together… Lord, make us instruments of your peace…
Merely to know St. Francis is to understand the gospel, and to follow him in his true, integral spirit, is to live the gospel in all its fullness…he did not think of himself as an apostle, but as a tramp.
Thomas Merton