Here we present an interesting vocational ministry experience launched in the Diocese of Como (and other diocesis of Lombardy), which aims to propose an innovative form of the nowadays little-used ‘minor seminary’. The proposal provides young people who are eager to find their true vocation with the time and space that they need, in an intimate and homely environment which has a clear religious character but at the same time is not separated from the reality of everyday life. This is how the Sicomoro experience came into being: a semi-residential community of Christian and fraternal life, where children from a given area stay for one week each month, accompanied in their journey of faith and vocational development by a team of educators composed of a priest and a married couple.