The European Province of the Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer participated in the Jubilee of the Missionary World and the Jubilee of Migrants celebrated in Rome on October 4 and 5.
Organized in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Evangelization, these meetings bring together pilgrims from nearly 100 countries, including Spain, and seek to renew the Church’s commitment to evangelization, welcome, and universal brotherhood.
The Jubilee of the Missionary World is dedicated to missionaries, lay people and religious, pastoral workers, and organizations working in the missionary field. The meeting opened on Saturday, October 4, with the Jubilee Audience of the Holy Father in St. Peter’s Square, followed by the pilgrimage to the Holy Door and the International Missionary Meeting “The Mission to the Nations today: towards new horizons” at the Pontifical Urbaniana University.
During the afternoon, missionary vigils were held in different languages and locations around Rome, concluding with an International Missionary Rosary in St. Peter’s Square.
On Sunday, October 5, the Eucharist presided over by Pope Leo XIV brought thousands of pilgrims around the altar in St. Peter’s Square. In the afternoon, in the Gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo, the “Feast of Peoples” was celebrated under the theme “Migrants and Missionaries of Hope among Peoples.” It was a celebration filled with music, testimonies, and cultural diversity, a living expression of a Church that welcomes, embraces, and sends forth.
The Jubilee of Migrants also brought together thousands of people from nearly 95 countries, highlighting the testimony of migrant, refugee, and missionary communities working for dignity, integration, and hope.
For the Oblate Family, participating in this Jubilee means renewing the missionary commitment to living the Gospel from the peripheries, especially accompanying women in prostitution and victims of trafficking, a concrete sign of the Oblate option for a Samaritan and outgoing Church.
(hermanasoblatas.org)
