The Vatican expects to receive at least 32 million pilgrims for the Jubilee of 2025. The Catholic Church holiday will begin on December 24, 2024 and end on December 14, 2025.
The Catholic Churchheaded by Pope Franciscois already preparing for the Jubilee 2025. He Vatican estimates that they will be receiving, approximately, 32 million pilgrims for the religious holiday.
“Pilgrims of Hope“is the motto of the next Jubilee that will formally begin in Christmas 2024, December 24, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, and will continue throughout next year. Pope Francis will publish the Call bull the next May 9.
Preparations for the Jubilee
“We made projections with a university and the scientific study that resulted in 32 million pilgrims for the Jubilee“, announced today the person in charge chosen by Francisco to organize the celebration, Monsignor Rino Fisichella. This would be more than double compared to the numbers of the last extraordinary Jubilee – in 2016 -, which was attended by more than 13 million pilgrims over 8 months.
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In addition, Fisichella explained that they hope they attend “at least one and a half million young people“And they do not rule out that the calculations fall short: those are the projections, I don’t know if later it will be 35 or 40 million,” Fisichella confessed.
The government of Giorgia Melonia, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, approved a few weeks ago a decree that foresees a series of works and reforms in Rome. Their objective is to be able to prepare the city to better receive all the people who will visit the Italian capital in 2025. A Jubilee Agency 2025 who periodically holds meetings with members of the Vatican to evaluate the progress of the project.
The second jubilee of Pope Francis
The intensity of the preparations is no surprise to Pope Francis. Next year, the Argentine will guide what will be the second Jubilee of his Pontificate: the first was the Holy Year of Mercy proclaimed through the Bull “Misericordiae Vultus” and which was carried out from November 29, 2015 to November 20, 2016.
The Supreme Pontiff is expected to publish the Bull on May 9 – in form of Apostolic Letter – through which the Pope summons believers to the Jubilee. The event will then officially begin on December 24, 2024 with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Celebrated every 25 years, the ordinary Jubilees concentrate a large number of events aimed at the faithful of the Catholic tradition. At 87 years old and with health problems overcome, Francisco prepares to receive the pilgrims.
Source: Ambito
