On the occasion of the Solemnity of All Saints, FIAC/IFCA, together with the Foundation Catholic Action School of Sanctity Piop XI and Italian Catholic Action, is proposing this initiative on the vigil of All Saints’ Day.
This year, we share in the great joy of the canonisation of Pier Giorgio Frassati and let us pray with him.
Prayer meeting with Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
a friend for Catholic Action throughout the world
We invite you to participate and share the invitation to this prayer meeting with Saint Pier Giorgio to meet our young saint friend, to pray the Rosary together with him, for peace, as Pope Leo XIV asks us to do in October Friday, 31 October, 3 p.m. (Italy, Spain), 11 a.m. (Argentina), 4 p.m. (Burundi), 2 p.m. (Senegal), 9 a.m. (Mexico), 10 a.m. (Philippines)
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Below are the documents in their original languages.
PROGRAMME
- Welcome – Eva Fernández Mateo [Spanish] Coordinator of IFCA Secretariat
- Our friend Pier Giorgio – Roberto Falciola [Italian] Biographer of Pier Giorgio and vice-postulator of the cause for canonisation, Diocesan President of Catholic Action in Turin
- The Rosary with Saint Pier Giorgio – Lorenzo Zardi [Italian] National Vice-President for the Youth Sector of the Italian Catholic Action, responsible person (with Emanuela Gitto) of the Youth Coordination of the IFCA
Recitation of the Holy Rosary for peace (Friday – sorrowful mysteries) in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Latin with representatives from various continents
Reading of the Gospel of the Beatitudes
- Conclusion
‘I always carry my testament – the rosary – in my pocket.’ (Pier Giorgio Frassati)
For Pier Giorgio, praying the Holy Rosary was a symbol of earthly and future life. He always carried his rosary with him and prayed it each day, without fear of reciting it wherever he was, among friends or while travelling around the city, during excursions to the mountains, while travelling, etc. It was a source of security and help for him, and his testimony encourages us to rediscover the power of this prayer, which the Holy Father asks us to recite for peace in this month of October 2025, a holy year.
