Ravenna Bari

August 30 – September 14, 2025
Dialogue between the peoples of the East and the West

 

HERE: Watch the video of the stage

To read

"I want this boat to move again"

"We need to raise our voices to heaven together."

 

Program

Friday, August 29, 2025

Youth reception and overnight stay in Ravenna

 

Saturday, August 30, 2025

9am-10am: Free visit time

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Group meeting with Father Alexis Leproux

12:30 p.m.: Lunch

2:30 p.m.: Welcome to the young people in the Dantesca Room, Classense Library, in the presence of: 

Mgr. Lorenzo Ghizzoni, Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia, Raffaele Ricciardi, Prefect of Ravenna and Alessandro Barattoni, Mayor of Ravenna.

3:15 p.m.: 4-voice conference

 

• “Dialogue to know: a journey between philosophy, art and life” by Dr. Francesca Masi, Director of RavennAntica
  
• “Mosaics of Ecumenical Hermeneutics” by Prof. Brother Lorenzo Raniero, OFM, President of the San Bernardino Ecumenical Institute, Venice. Read here. 
• “Galla Placidia: A Life for Dialogue between East and West” by Professor Emanuela Fogliadini, founder of the Academy for Christian Art
• “Peace has new names. Ideas for an experience of international dialogue” by Prof. Vincenzo Buonomo, Pontifical Delegate and Rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana University. Read here.

6:45 p.m.: Conclusion of work

7:30 p.m.: Dinner

Sunday, August 31, 2025

9:30: Mass at the Basilica of San Vitale

11:00 a.m.: Visit of the historic center

12:30 p.m.: Lunch

2:00 p.m.: Free time

3:30 p.m.: 3-part conference

 

• “Bose Monastery: Ecumenical Window” by Brother SABINO CHIALÀ, Prior of the Bose Monastery.
• “Christian Russia: Promoting Unity through Knowledge of the Spiritual, Cultural and Liturgical Tradition of Russian Orthodoxy” by Prof. ADRIANO DELL'ASTA, Vice-President of the Christian Russia Foundation
• “Ministry of Peace, a policy for the future” by Me LAILA SIMONCELLI, head of the Human Rights and Justice department of the Pope John XXIII Community

6:30 p.m.: Conclusion of work

9:00 p.m.: Party with the youth ministry at the Ravennate Sailing Club – Marina di Ravenna 

 

Monday 1er September 2025

9:30 a.m.: Visit of the city center

11:00: Team time

12:30 p.m.: lunch on board the Bel Espoir

2 p.m.: Free time

6 p.m.: Departure from the Bel Espoir via the Grand Canal and the drawbridge

 

 

Tuesday, September 2 – Wednesday, September 10 : Navigation

Thursday, September 11, 2025

5 p.m.: Official welcome at the old fish market, in Piazza del Ferrarese, with musical entertainment and a presentation of the med25 initiative and what was experienced during the Ravenna-Bari route.

8 p.m.-10 p.m.: Night of Ecumenical Worship on the square in front of the San Ferdinando parish

 

Friday, September 12, 2025 

9am-10am: Team time on the boat

10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Guided tours of the old town (San Nicola; San Giovanni Crisostomo; Cathedral; Diocesan Museum; etc.). 

12:30 p.m.: Lunch 

 

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Free time

5 p.m.-7 p.m.: Time for sharing and discussion, based on ecumenical testimonies of peace from the five shores of the Mediterranean (young people, bishops and representatives of Christian churches).

8 p.m.: Mediterranean festive evening 

 

Saturday, September 13, 2025

 9:30-11:30: Team time for proofreading

12:30 p.m.: lunch on the boat 

1:30 p.m.: Final greetings

 

 

 

About

The seventh stage of the MED 25 Le Bel Espoir odyssey will delve into the more detailed issue of the diversity of Christianities in the Mediterranean. On this Italian shore of the Adriatic, opportunities for both junction and rupture have repeatedly arisen between the Christian communities of the East and West. Faced with the challenges of peace, Christians cannot be satisfied with the ruptures of the past. They bear the heavy burden of developing spaces for collaboration so as not to let the tensions of the past poison the challenges of the present. The search for the unity of Christianities is not only a theological question; it is also a mission in the service of peace.

"Encounter and unity must always be sought without fear of diversity. And likewise peace: it must be cultivated, including in the arid terrains of opposition, because today, whatever happens, there is no possible alternative to peace. Truces secured by walls or tests of strength will not bring peace; but it is the real will to listen and to dialogue that will.", Pope Francis, Ecumenical Meeting, Bari, 2018.