Retreat, Daily Schedule & Excursions

Spiritual Retreat
The Rome Experience program begins with a spiritual retreat focusing on Christ’s presence in the Eucharist as the source and root of the priestly life. The retreat provides time for reflection and rest for the body and mind to prepare the seminarians to fully absorb their spiritual pilgrimage to Rome, the cradle of Christianity.

Daily Schedule & Excursions
Rome, “The Eternal City,” attracts millions of visitors each year. While several tours of Rome and its environs are part of The Rome Experience program, you are on a pilgrimage as a future priest who has come to Rome to pray and study next to the Chair of St. Peter and the saints, while providing a witness of your faith. The program has been designed to provide you with spiritual, intellectual, and cultural formation.

Weekdays

• Morning Prayer
• Meditation and Holy Mass
• Breakfast
• Class
• Class
• Class
• Confession and Spiritual Direction
• Lunch
• Tours/Free Time
• Evening Prayer and Mental Prayer
• Dinner
• Rosary, Examination of Conscience, Night Prayer

Weekly Schedule Includes:

• Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction
• Confessions and Spiritual Direction
• Papal Liturgies
• Visits to Congregations
• Tours and Excursions
• Students have free time every Saturday from noon until Sunday dinner time.

The Rome Experience has a set schedule designed to maximize the participants’ benefit from the program and to help each seminarian form a healthy relationship with the group. We have established a policy to reduce outside distractions to the program. Visits with family, friends, diocesan brother seminarians and priests will only be permitted during regularly scheduled free time. Please inform any family or friends visiting Rome of this policy. Visits from your Vocation Director, Rector, or Bishop may occur at any time convenient to them.