The 2025 Jubilee will be the Church’s first ordinary jubilee since St. John Paul II led The Great Jubilee of 2000. The Jubilee of Mercy opened by Pope Francis in 2015 was an extraordinary jubilee.
Archbishop Fisichella leads the Vatican dicastery entrusted with the event’s organization, the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.
“There is so much work to be done,” he said.
The 2025 Jubilee will include the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. Pilgrims who pass through the door – which is only opened during Jubilee years, ordinarily every 25 years or when a pope calls for an extraordinary Jubilee – can receive a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions.
The four major basilicas in Rome all have Holy Doors. During the Extraordinary Jubilee of 2015, Pope Francis also granted cathedral churches around the world permission to establish and open a Holy Door.
Jubilees have biblical roots, as the Mosaic era established jubilee years to be held every 50 years for the freeing of slaves and forgiveness of debts as manifestations of God’s mercy.
The practice was re-established in 1300 by Boniface VIII. Pilgrims to Rome were granted a plenary indulgence. Between 1300 and 2000, 29 jubilee years were held in Rome.
“To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them. It is he who seeks us! It is he who comes to encounter us,” Pope Francis said as he opened the jubilee Holy Door on St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 8, 2015.
“In passing through the Holy Door, then, may we feel that we ourselves are part of this mystery of love, of tenderness. Let us set aside all fear and dread, for these do not befit men and women who are loved. Instead, let us experience the joy of encountering that grace which transforms all things,” he said.
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The President of the Communications Commission of the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress, Father Livingston Olivares (left), accompanies EWTN Vice President for Programming and Production Peter Gagnon (center-right), EWTN Vice President for Spanish-language Production, Marketing, and Radio Enrique Duprat (center-left), EWTN Production Director Michael Holmes (far right), and IEC Quito 2024 Communications Coordinator Marcelo Mejía (front, kneeling) at the Monument to the Equator, the exact location of the Equator (from which the country of Ecuador takes its name) on the outskirts of the country’s capital city of Quito, site of the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress. / Credit: Communications Commission of the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress
ACI Prensa Staff, May 21, 2024 / 06:40 am (CNA).
The 53rd International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) has chosen EWTN as the official channel for providing live coverage of the event, which will take place from Sept. 8–15 in Quito, Ecuador.
“The 53rd International Eucharistic Congress, which will be held in Quito Sept. 8–15, has chosen EWTN as its official channel, which will broadcast everything related” to this great event, said Father Juan Carlos Garzón, secretary-general of the IEC Quito 2024, in a statement sent from Rome to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner.
The theme for this year’s International Eucharistic Congress is “Fraternity to Heal the World.” On Monday, the Vatican also announced that Pope Francis designated Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect for the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, as pontifical legate to the congress.
Garzón was in Rome last week as part of a delegation, chaired by Alfredo Espinoza Mateus, archbishop of Quito and primate of Ecuador, “to hold a series of meetings with the main papal authorities.”
Since the beginning of the preparations for IEC 2024, Garzón added: “EWTN has been present at the orientation and training for IEC 2024 communications personnel.”
Logo for the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, from Sept. 8-15, 2024. Credit: Communications Commission of the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress
EWTN preparations for IEC Quito 2024
In tandem, to coordinate EWTN’s transmissions of IEC Quito 2024, a team from the network visited the Ecuadorian capital, including the Quito Metropolitan Convention Center, where the congress will be held.
The team was comprised of EWTN Vice President for Programming and Production Peter Gagnon, EWTN Director of Production Michael Holmes, and EWTN Vice President for Spanish-language Production, Marketing, and Radio Enrique Duprat.
Gagnon said EWTN transmissions of the event will be offered in Spanish, English, and German. “This will be a wonderful event for those attending and for those watching,” Gagnon said.
“For EWTN, it is an immense joy to be the channel for the Quito 2024 International Eucharistic Congress,” Duprat said. “It is essential for us to be the platform on which, no matter where our audience is, everyone can enjoy the most important Catholic events in the Church.”
As for coverage details, Duprat said: “The plan is to be able to offer this International Eucharistic Congress live and direct from Quito and in multiple languages [Spanish, English, and German] both through our television and radio signals, the internet, and through our digital app.”
The event coincides with the 150th anniversary of the 1874 consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1886, Quito was also the site of the first National Eucharistic Congress.
During their preparatory visit, the EWTN team traveled the route of a procession that will take place on Sept. 14 in the historic center of Quito, which will begin with a Mass in San Francisco Plaza and then head to the Basilica of the National Vow, where benediction will be given.
They also visited the IEC offices, where they were received by Garzón, who explained how the organization of the event is progressing, including the schedule of a theological symposium to be held Sept. 4–7, just prior to the Sept. 8–15 congress.
The EWTN delegation also visited the Middle of the World Park and Monument to the Equator, marking the equator dividing the northern and southern hemispheres and where a Liturgy of the Word is planned with emphasis on care for creation.
Registration underway
Registration for the International Eucharistic Congress, both for the theological symposium and for the congress itself, is underway and available through the event website.
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Headquartered in Washington, D.C., EWTN News operates multiple global news services, including Catholic News Agency; The National Catholic Register newspaper and digital platform; ACI Prensa in Spanish; ACI Digital in Portuguese; ACI Stampa in Italian; ACI Africa in English, French, and Portuguese; ACI Mena in Arabic; CNA Deutsch in German; and ChurchPop, a digital platform that creates content in several languages. It also produces numerous television news programs including “EWTN News Nightly,” “EWTN News In Depth,” “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly,” and “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.”
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
Pilgrims compare to a Synodal Church on a forever journey as like unto like. Catholic pilgrims historically visited holy sites, monasteries and the like. Recent Synod on synodality discussions confirmed there is no definitive agenda, no expected findings consistent with Apostolic tradition [quite the contrary] no Magisterial confirmation. A voyage of discovery seeking enlightenment from the Holy Spirit.
With no process of confirmation that purported revelations are from the third person of the Trinity this will be challenging. There’ll likely be many such revelations, many at odds discussions as endless as the journey. Onlookers, the attendant Mystical Body if such unfolds will likely assume our revealed faith is more a matter of perspective than permanence. Seminaries, if they were still thought useful, would presumably turn from Thomas Aquinas to Heraclitus. My advice to the remaining faithful is store up on the Fathers of the Church.
“…store up on the Church Fathers”…Yes, and as such, “ressourcement” (including the Scriptures) was one pillar of the much-maligned (and, yes, less than perfect) and then betrayed Second Vatican Council. The other pillar was “aggiornamento,’ or engagement with the modern world without accommodating and blending synodally (?) into the streamflow of Heraclitus.
But wait! Somewhere in the venadecum there’s a warning of fully two or three words not to buy into “passing opinion.” So there! All is well.
“Fisichella revealed that the motto approved by the pope “can be summed up in two words: Pilgrims of Hope.’”
Um, I was never great at math, but I’m pretty sure “Pilgrims of Hope” numbers three words, not two.
Not important, you say?
Okay, maybe not. But if it’s the good archbishop’s job to introduce this weighty, portentous theme for this very significant event, shouldn’t the very first thing he says about it be, like, accurate?
Why is it that I always have the feeling that I’m expecting too much from this papacy?
Jubilee celebrations have long been too spiritualized to consist mainly in pilgrimages and the original biblical and Christological meaning of the Jubilee lost. Leviticus 25 had economic rebooting dimensions with the release of slaves and return and rest of lands which was expounded in Isaiah 62 and became Jesus’ vision-mission statement in Luke 4:18-19. I wish and pray in this 2025 Jubilee we return to these scriptural roots and the Holy Spirit move the Church to speak and act more and more against global economic inequity and ecological devastation.
Pilgrims compare to a Synodal Church on a forever journey as like unto like. Catholic pilgrims historically visited holy sites, monasteries and the like. Recent Synod on synodality discussions confirmed there is no definitive agenda, no expected findings consistent with Apostolic tradition [quite the contrary] no Magisterial confirmation. A voyage of discovery seeking enlightenment from the Holy Spirit.
With no process of confirmation that purported revelations are from the third person of the Trinity this will be challenging. There’ll likely be many such revelations, many at odds discussions as endless as the journey. Onlookers, the attendant Mystical Body if such unfolds will likely assume our revealed faith is more a matter of perspective than permanence. Seminaries, if they were still thought useful, would presumably turn from Thomas Aquinas to Heraclitus. My advice to the remaining faithful is store up on the Fathers of the Church.
“…store up on the Church Fathers”…Yes, and as such, “ressourcement” (including the Scriptures) was one pillar of the much-maligned (and, yes, less than perfect) and then betrayed Second Vatican Council. The other pillar was “aggiornamento,’ or engagement with the modern world without accommodating and blending synodally (?) into the streamflow of Heraclitus.
But wait! Somewhere in the venadecum there’s a warning of fully two or three words not to buy into “passing opinion.” So there! All is well.
“Fisichella revealed that the motto approved by the pope “can be summed up in two words: Pilgrims of Hope.’”
Um, I was never great at math, but I’m pretty sure “Pilgrims of Hope” numbers three words, not two.
Not important, you say?
Okay, maybe not. But if it’s the good archbishop’s job to introduce this weighty, portentous theme for this very significant event, shouldn’t the very first thing he says about it be, like, accurate?
Why is it that I always have the feeling that I’m expecting too much from this papacy?
Jubilee celebrations have long been too spiritualized to consist mainly in pilgrimages and the original biblical and Christological meaning of the Jubilee lost. Leviticus 25 had economic rebooting dimensions with the release of slaves and return and rest of lands which was expounded in Isaiah 62 and became Jesus’ vision-mission statement in Luke 4:18-19. I wish and pray in this 2025 Jubilee we return to these scriptural roots and the Holy Spirit move the Church to speak and act more and more against global economic inequity and ecological devastation.