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JUBILEE 2025 OF CONSECRATED LIFE

BY DICASTERY FOR INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE AND THE SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIFE

THE JUBILEE with the slogan “Pilgrims of hope, on the way of peace” takes the form of a call to consecrated men and women throughout the world to reconciliation, conversion and sacramental penance, as well as to solidarity, justice and joy in God’s service. This sacred Jubilee year time seeks to promote holiness of life, strengthening of faith and encouragement of performing works of solidarity and fraternal communion within the Church and society.

The national preparation for this great meeting invites each country to identify both the areas where the need for reconciliation is strongest, and the seeds of reconciliation that are already present. This process of discernment and action is an integral part of the journey toward the celebration of a national Jubilee and eventually a worldwide Jubilee.

Heading towards the meeting of February 2024

“Pilgrims of hope on the path of peace” is the theme of the jubilee for consecrated life to be held in Rome on October 8 and 9, 2025. Preparation for this important event has begun in 2023 through online meetings between representatives of the different forms of consecrated life and meetings of the commission established to organize the agenda and preparations for the jubilee days.

Consecrated women and men are also called upon to be witnesses and prophets of hope and peace, particularly on the occasion of the coming jubilee.

The jubilee is an event of great spiritual, social and ecclesial significance, an important time where God’s people yearn for His forgiveness and mercy. Jubilees throughout Church history have, like milestones, marked the ecclesial journey. Consecrated women and men are also called upon to be witnesses and prophets of hope and peace, particularly on the occasion of the coming jubilee.

Consecrated life, responding to Pope Francis’ call to create, through the Jubilee journey, a climate of hope and trust as a sign of rebirth for which all humanity feels the need, aims to reflect on the great need for peace, a desperate necessity of our time.

The next stage of preparation will be the meeting that will take place from 1 to 4 February, 2024 in Rome, which will be attended by about three hundred consecrated women and men, representatives of the different forms of consecrated life from each country: male Religious, female Religious, members of secular institutes and consecrated female belonging to the Ordo Virginum.

During the meeting, a selection themes which emerged from the online meetings will be explored: the need for personal, ecclesial, and social reconciliation and associated attitudes, the industriousness of faith, the hard work of charity, and the steadfastness of hope.

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Each participant is invited to identify in his or her own country which areas are most in need of reconciliation and which seeds of hope have already been sown and are indeed budding. The event will conclude with a mandate for all delegates to return to their respective countries as symbols of reconciliation among men and women in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee celebration which will be held in each country on February 2 of that year.