For more than 30 years one community of friars has been involved in welcoming young people in order to help them in the search for their vocation. Through residential courses, biblical catechism and visits to the places connected to the human and spiritual life of St. Francis and St. Clare, young people are listened to and helped to understand their vocational search.

If you search for a water that quenches your thirst; if you can believe that God has a uniquely new and original plan for you; if you desire to discover it and receive with responsibility the gift of God's calling, you can listen to the Crucifix which, in St. Damian, spoke to a young man like you: Francis of Assisi.

Today you too, just as then, can experience the same freedom listening to the Word which saves and which can liberate your heart from all that oppresses it. We invite you to spend some days here in Assisi, as a gift to yourself. Our Franciscan brotherhood would like to help you to share the same experience of Francis and Clare, together with other brothers and sisters that, like you, are searching for the true water that can slake your thirst.