Its Sunday here. We are just about to celebrate mass and head to Assisi for a month. I will be doing Italian immersion. I apologize for no posts in the past couple of days, and probably not many in the coming weeks because I will not have private computer usage. I will be able to check email, but I doubt I will have the time on a computer to write a blog post.

Yesterday, we visited the town of Orvieto. It is the home of the relic of the Eucharistic miracle from the 13th century. The Cathedral that was built for the relic took 400 years to build. It has a chapel that holds the blood stained corporal. The church from the outside and inside looks like a prison inmate because it has stripes, alternating light and dark stones. There are few churches from that time that utilized that style. There is a side chapel called the Chapel of San Brizio. It is beautiful. We weren't able to take pictures but you can see pictures online. It has frescos that look much like the sistine chapel. That is because Michelangelo received his inspiration from the Chapel of San Brizio. Art back then was meant to be catechetical for the illiterate. So in this chapel it depicts the resurrection of the dead, hell, judgment, heaven, and the anti-Christ.

Anyways, I'm off to mass. My transition has been smooth. The vice-rector and second year seminarians who have helped with early orientation have been most hospitable. May God bless you all back in the states.