Romena
"It looks like a fairy tale"
Claudia walking on early morning from Prato Vecchio to Romena (about 3 km) for the morning Praise God. Looking at the sunrise over the valley she said: "it looks like a fairy tale".
Jesus the carpenter
The smoke of a candle just turned off after the evening Praise God. There are 3 little chapels adorned by Father Luigi Verdi, using wooden artifatcs he made, to honor Jesus as a carpenter that he was.
The redemption's stone.
The ancient Romanic church with the connected plebeian house. The "Pieve" used to be a minor church annexed to a rural comunity. When it was built in the 1152 ac the comunity people was very poor, they were living a famine in "tempore famis", but they offered the best of their crativity to the divine, to stop the tribolations. The crisis it became an instrument of redemption.
The hug
Two students embrace on the Garden of Beauty. On that day 400 students of the Valdarno's high school came for a daily visit at Romena. They spent the morning on the auditorioum learning about real life's experinces connected with the comunity, and visiting the Roman church. Father Luigi Verdi complains about the fear of future of the young generations, and accused parents and teachers of having stolen their dreams.
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The ancient Roman church based on the spiritual's Camaldoli valley, is the hearth of the fraternity founded on 1991 by Father Luigi Verdi, who is the only religious man of the comunity runs by laic people . Romena doesn't ask your religion, if you are a believer or not; Romena offers the opportunity to get back in touch with yourself, and discover the value of relationships.