The 3 days of Albano returns for those who don't want to choose between faith and LGBTQ+ people

The three-day event in Albano Laziale (Rome) was created for those who have questions that do not always find space elsewhere: lGBTQ+ Christians, their parents and the pastoral workers who accompany them. three Different realities... but linked by the same desire: not to separate faith from life.

Who came in the past few years he recounts those days almost always starting from the fatigue he experienced before deciding to participate.

A gay boy told me that he arrived with the fear of not finding his place there... and that he realized, little by little, that he wasn't the only one who felt this way. That feeling of being “out of place” was not a personal failure, but a shared wound. And shared... it became lighter.

Gabriel said: "Every time I come to the Tre Giorni in Albano, I take something away with me... I go home different." Not because everything will be resolved... but maybe because something opens.

Ada wrote: “they were three intense days… which gave breath and balm to our souls”. Because when you find a space where, as a believer, you can be yourself without defending yourself… you breathe. And it's not just a feeling: it's something that many have experienced.

A friend of the Mosaiko group in Rome told me that he had arrived "displaced", without knowing exactly what to expect... and that he had discovered, by listening to others, that that disorientation could become a common path.

And then there are the parents.

A Christian mother with a gay son described his arrival like this: at first the confusion, the questions, then the meeting with other parents, other stories. And there something changes. Not everything, not right away… but it changes. One father added: “meeting other parents made me realize that I wasn't alone.”

And then there are the pastoral workers. People who arrive with the desire to accompany... but often also with the burden of feeling alone in doing so, without tools and without comparison.

In Albano they meet other consecrated people who help them take a step further. They listen, they question themselves... a priest told me: "I thought that accompanying meant having answers. Here I understood that it means above all listening. And that I too, to truly accompany, need to be accompanied".

And this is perhaps one of the greatest gifts of these three days: not feeling alone in caring.

From 15 to 17 may 2026 we return to Albano Laziale (Rome), in house of the Somaschi Fathers, with their own stories, their own efforts, their own hopes. And there, between a sharing and a moment of prayer, between a testimony and a workshop, we discover that something is moving. In our churches… and within us.

When I think about who could come this year... I think above all about those who are asking questions.
To those who, inside the Church, don't know where to stand.
To anyone who is a believing LGBTQ+ person and tries to keep everything together... without breaking.
To those who are parents and are trying to understand how to love without losing faith.
To those who accompany and feel that, to really do it, they too need to be accompanied.

So yes... this three days is for them. It's for you, if you find yourself even a little in these lines. There is no need to arrive with clear ideas. There is no need to already have answers. Just be there.

Because it is there, often, that the simplest and most difficult thing happens: meeting others... and, little by little... meeting yourself too.

Soon all the info to participate.

* The catacombs of San Senatore they are located a few minutes - very few, three minutes by car - from the house of the Somaschi Fathers where we will meet in Albano Laziale. At km 25 of the Via Appia, under the church of Santa Maria della Stella... They are dedicated to the martyr Senator and contain early Christian, Byzantine and medieval images that tell of a faith lived in silence, often in hiding.
Among these images there is one that is more striking than the others. The bearded face of a very particular saint: a monk, venerated already in life for his goodness. But then, after her death… it was discovered that she was actually a woman. And perhaps it is no coincidence that, a few steps from the place where we will meet, there is also this memory.
A memory that remains there... and continues to speak to us.