The work of the Pastoral Commission for the Jubilee is rooted in the concrete realities of today’s world

The Jubilee will be a pastoral opportunity for the whole Church.  The Jubilee path will offer Christians a chance to express their personal faith. The Jubilee Pastoral Commission has already met three times. It has the task of working with the Dicastery for Evangelization to come up with practical proposals for the Jubilee and their implementation

Among the members of the Commission are representatives of various Dicasteries of the Roman Curia and other Church bodies who are pooling and sharing their particular competencies in the various areas of work to be undertaken.

The Commission has the task of responding to the needs and requirements of the world of today, its different ways of celebrating, its languages and spiritualities.  Central to the work will be the challenge of bringing alive the motto of the 2025 Jubilee.

The motto is made up of two terms with a strong existential value – ‘Pilgrims’ and ‘Hope’. As Christian pilgrims walking the paths of the earth, we must, as the Pope reminds us, ‘keep alight the torch of hope which has been given to us and do all we can so that everyone can regain the strength and the certainty to look forward with an open soul and a confident heart.’

The Jubilee will be a providential opportunity for all men and women to see themselves once more – each and every one – as children of a Father who has placed them on this earth to care for Creation and all creatures.

Among the great variety of proposals which have emerged for the Holy Year a special focus must be given to people’s local circumstances and environments – the realities in which people live out their faith on a daily basis.  Essentially the next Jubilee will be a way of re-reading with the heart the ‘signs of the times’ using that authentic Hope which comes from faith in Christ as a light to illuminate the footsteps of humanity.