Consecrated Life at Jubilee 2025

From the 8th-11th October in Rome, thousands of consecrated persons from every continent participated in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life as a single body of prayer, listening, and mission. From the Vigil in St. Peter's to the meetings on forms of life, up to the final pilgrimage, an ecclesial face of communion emerged, capable of speaking to the hearts of local Churches and the peripheries of the world.

During the Mass in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo reaffirmed the three verbs of prayer from the Gospel of Luke as icons of the evangelical counsels: "Ask" in poverty, "Seek" in obedience, and "Knock" to offer Christ's charity to all. “For you, for us, the Lord is everything… Without Him nothing exists, nothing has meaning,” he recalled, inviting consecrated persons to spread the “oxygen” of a concrete, faithful, and lasting love. In his audience with participants, the Holy Father recognized consecrated life as a Gospel capable of awakening the world: "The Church needs you and all the diversity and richness of the forms of consecration... United with Christ, your small lights become a luminous path in the great project of peace and salvation." He then assigned a task that is both method and style: synodality as a "domestic dialogue" that renews relationships, processes, and paths, calling on them to become "experts in synodality... prophets at the service of the people of God."

In the squares of Rome, with the themes of "fraternity, listening to the least fortunate, and care for creation," Consecrated Life demonstrated its simplest signature: closeness that mends, hope that never gives up, and the protection of our Common Home, In the Paul VI Hall, moments of discernment accompanied the invocation of peace, with the desire to transform communities and works into laboratories of reconciliation. Sister Simona Brambilla, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, offered a reflection that spanned the entire Jubilee, calling consecrated persons to live their charism as a "yobel," a horn announcing freedom and a new beginning. "Different people, backgrounds, cultures, ecclesial experiences, different forms of consecrated life, different charisms," she said in the 10th October audience. "We are like so many yobels, each with its own unique and unrepeatable sound, but called to play together the symphony of the Jubilee of Hope."

In her closing message at the Basilica of St  Paul Outside the Walls, Sr. Simona urged those present to be "a place of dialogue and encounter, a bridge over which different experiences and wisdoms can pass, find each other, and exchange gifts," transforming their communities into "a safe and respectful environment in which relationships of true reciprocity can be born and grow." With a final exhortation, he encouraged everyone: "So, let us go, brothers and sisters! Let us go, pilgrims of hope on the path of peace, carrying with us the experience we have lived to cherish it in our hearts and to share it with those we meet!" The Jubilee has rekindled a shared decision: to "go" as pilgrims of hope and artisans of peace. Consecrated persons set out again on the roads of the world with a renewed "yes," ready to make the demanding joy of the Gospel shine in their daily lives. The Pope's command remains the daily task: to ask, to seek, to knock—so that, in poverty, obedience, and charity, the Church may recognize the face of Christ who walks with us.

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