Alongside your peers and young adults in the faith, we hope to form a community where you can learn how to pray, appreciate the sacraments, discover the faith, and create authentic friendships that point back to Christ. Given our name, Ascend, we hope to Ascend the mountain of faith together to become closer (in proximity and spiritually) to Jesus Christ. Ascending a mountain sounds like a daunting task, but together and connected to Jesus- we can DO IT!
Every month we will have social events for everyone involved in ministry and then we will have fellowship nights for High schoolers, specifically, to build relationship and grow in community with each other.
Pier Giorgio Frassati was a handsome, fun-loving, athletic, courageous and devout Catholic born into a prominent Italian family. He died too soon at just 24 but has since become the model for lay people - and future popes! - all over the world.
He developed a deep spiritual life which he never hesitated to share with his friends. The Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin were the two poles of his world of prayer. At the age of 17, he joined the St. Vincent de Paul Society and dedicated much of his spare time to serving the sick and the needy, caring for orphans, and assisting the demobilized servicemen returning from World War I.
Mountain climbing was one of his favorite sports. Outings in the mountains, which he organized with his friends, also served as opportunities for his apostolic work. He never lost the chance to lead his friends to Mass, to the reading of Scripture, and to praying the rosary. He often went to the theater, to the opera, and to museums. He loved art and music, and could quote whole passages of the poet Dante.
Just before receiving his university degree, Pier Giorgio contracted poliomyelitis, which doctors later speculated he caught from the sick whom he tended. Neglecting his own health because his grandmother was dying, after six days of terrible suffering Pier Giorgio died at the age of 24 on July 4, 1925. His last preoccupation was for the poor. On the eve of his death, with a paralyzed hand he scribbled a message to a friend, asking him to take the medicine needed for injections to be given to Converso, a poor sick man he had been visiting.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pray for us!
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