The Diocese of Knoxville’s Young Adult Ministry serves to imitate Jesus’s accompaniment of his disciples on the Road to Emmaus (cf Lk. 23:13-35) by providing spiritual support, Christian formation, and building peer communities rooted in faith so that young adults may be equipped to live as true disciples of Christ.
Young adults are persons aged 18-35 who represent diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, educational, vocational, social, political, and spiritual backgrounds. They are college students, workers, and professionals; they are persons in military service; they are single, married, divorced, or widowed; they are with or without children; they are faithful, cradle Catholics and newcomers in search of a better life.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was dedicated to works of social action, charity, prayer and community. He was involved with Catholic youth and student groups, the Apostleship of Prayer, Catholic Action, and was a third order Dominican. Frassati died in 1925 at the age of 24. He was called “The Man of Eight Beatitudes” by St. John Paul II, who beatified him on May 20, 1990. Blessed Frassati’s feast day is July 4.