The Generalate to host International Gathering for Young Lasallians during Jubilee 2025

In the context of the Jubilee Year 2025, just inaugurated by Pope Francis on 24 December, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools has convened a series of meetings during the week in which the Jubilee celebrations dedicated to youth will take place, from 28 July to 3 August 2025.

This was announced by the Office of Vocations and Volunteer Ministry and the Institute’s Commission on Youth, through a communication in which they explained that, as has been done in past editions of World Youth Day (WYD), on this occasion “our Lasallian gathering will be held in the morning of July 31^st at the Generalate, our Motherhouse”.

“We will organise a programme to deepen our Lasallian Spirituality and Identity, accompanied by Brother Superior General and members of the General Council,” continues the letter of convocation to the Meeting, which will also be under the leadership of by the Lasallian Region of Europe and the Mediterranean (RELEM).

Registration will be open from January 2025, while the organisers will provide more information about the Meeting, although they have already anticipated that “those Lasallians who are interested in joining the Youth Jubillee 2025 activities in Rome, and will not be able to join through their local diocese, can register through the District of Italy and stay at one of our schools in Rome together with other Lasallians“. They will have to be very attentive, because registration for the Youth Jubilee activities “also starts in January”

The Jubilee of Hope

On the official website of the Jubilee 2025, the motto of which is “Pilgrims of Hope”, you will find various information about this event of great spiritual, ecclesial and social importance, which has been celebrated every 100 years since the year 1300, when it was instituted at the time of Pope Boniface VIII, but then, inspired by the Bible, it began to be celebrated every 50 years and then every 25 years.

In 2025, in addition to the Jubilee of Youth (28 July to 3 August), Rome will host the Jubilee of Teenagers (25-27 April), the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly (30 May to 1 June), the Jubilee of Consecrated Life (8-9 October), the Jubilee of the World of Education (31 October to 2 November 2025), the (8-9 October), and the (31 October to 2 November 2025), the Jubilee of the Educational World (31 October to 2 November 2025), and the Jubilee of the Poor (16 November), among many other Jubilee celebrations.

“The Jubilee opens so that all may be given hope, the hope of the Gospel, the hope of love, the hope of forgiveness,” Pope Francis recalled during the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica.