Jubilee of Priests 2025: Information and Event Programme

Jubilee of Priests 2025: When the Church Rediscovers Itself and Begins to Walk Again

There comes a moment in the life of a believing man when the heart feels the need to return to the source. When the voice becomes prayer, silence becomes listening, and even weariness takes the shape of an offering. For the faithful around the world, and especially for priests, that moment has a name: Jubilee. Among the many events that will mark the Holy Year, from 25 to 27 June, Rome will be transformed into an altar open to the heavens. Its basilicas will welcome presbyters from every corner of the earth—brothers in ministry, guardians of a mystery that transcends the centuries.
It will not be a conference. It will not be merely an event. It will be a journey of faith, a return home. It will be the Jubilee of Priests.

At the heart of Jubilee 2025, among the most profound appointments, this is perhaps the most silent and the most powerful: because it speaks to the shepherds. Because it calls them to be reborn. And Rome, for those three days, will no longer be just a city.
It will be a womb. It will be an ark. It will be a cenacle.
The Jubilee of Priests 2025 is an act of love. An invitation to slow down. To breathe. To remember why one once said yes. An act of love, then—not an abstract or rhetorical love, but a concrete one, born in daily toil and revived in the silence of the heart.
It is an invitation to slow down, to finally set down the backpack of responsibilities and sit, for a moment, on the ancient stones of Rome as if upon a sacred threshold. It is a gentle and solemn call that whispers: Do you remember the first glance?

The first altar? That day when, before God and men, you said yes with your whole being, with all you were and all you had yet to become?
Breathing, then, becomes prayer. Time is no longer a race, but a truce. A truce with one’s own frailty, with unmet expectations, with the questions that still await answers.
In that suspended time, between a liturgy and an embrace, every priest will be able to reconnect with the voice that once called him, with the source of a vocation that was never merely a choice, but a mystery received.
Because the priesthood is like an ancient song carried within, even when the world falls silent. And the Jubilee is precisely this: a place where that song can once again resound—clear, intact, powerful. A place to rediscover the beauty of one’s ministry not as a burden, but as a gift. Not as a role, but as a mission.

The dates of the Jubilee are written on the calendar. But the encounter that changes one’s life knows no clock: it happens within.
And whoever lets themselves be reached by that light will return changed. Lighter. Fuller. More of a father.

The Programme of the Jubilee of Priests

The programme for Jubilee 2025 opens with gentle steps—those of the seminarians, who on 23 June will arrive at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls like sons approaching the Father’s house.
There they will be welcomed with song and light, with the recitation of the Rosary and a concert directed by Monsignor Frisina. A luminous vigil for those still journeying towards the altar.

The following day, 24 June, they will pass through the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica, guided by the voice of Pope Leo XIV. It will be their first official pilgrimage, made up of catecheses and Masses celebrated in the churches of Rome, in every language of the world, like seeds scattered by the wind.

But the heart of the Jubilee of Priests begins on 25 June. It is the day when the arms of the Mother Church open to embrace bishops and priests. In the majestic quiet of the Constantine Wing, pastors from afar will gather, ready to cross the Holy Door and celebrate, at 10:30 am, the Eucharist at the Altar of the Chair, beneath the vault of Saint Peter’s.
Then, the afternoon becomes intimate and communal: in the churches of Rome, catecheses specific to language and origin, gatherings for words and listening, questions and blessings. Small cenacles scattered across the streets of Rome.

The next day, Thursday 26 June, is perhaps the most intense.
At 9:30 am, the Eucharistic Celebration in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, presided over by Cardinal Lazzaro You, ignites the heart of the day.
Then begins the pilgrimage. A slow and silent journey to the four Papal Basilicas.
From 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, amidst confessions and walking, the priests become pilgrims of mercy, bearers of the forgiveness they daily administer to others.
And finally, the evening.
A vocational vigil in Saint Peter’s Square, under the Roman sky, led by Monsignor Fisichella.
A moment of silence, like a secret room in the heart of time.

And then comes Friday 27 June. The day of the Heart.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast deeply loved by presbyters, seals the Jubilee with a celebration filled with the scent of beginnings.
In Saint Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV will preside over the Mass and the presbyteral ordinations.
The Church looks into the mirror: priests renewing their consecration, and young men saying that definitive yes for the first time.
A bridge of outstretched hands between those who have walked and those just beginning.

But the Jubilee of Priests does not end with its dates. It does not live only in the programme. It lives in glances, in handshakes, in whispered words between pews, in tears shared before the Tabernacle.
Each priest will be called to bring his own story, his struggles, his hidden victories, his sleepless nights.
And in return he will receive the strength of the “we”: that invisible communion which makes of many men one single Body.
Solidarity also becomes part of the journey: a symbolic contribution of €50—not mandatory, but strongly encouraged—will help enable the participation of poorer seminarians.
A small seed of love, blossoming in another life.

Registrations for the Jubilee events are still open until 20 April 2025 through the official website.
Entry to celebrations is free; to concelebrate, one simply needs to register with the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Pope.

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