{"id":11127,"date":"2025-07-17T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/rome-pilgrims-hope-delegation-its-way-2025-youth-jubilee\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:40:55","slug":"rome-pilgrims-hope-delegation-its-way-2025-youth-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/rome-pilgrims-hope-delegation-its-way-2025-youth-jubilee\/","title":{"rendered":"To Rome as Pilgrims of Hope \u2013 A delegation on its way to the 2025 Youth Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the invitation of Pope Francis,&nbsp;<b>young people from our diocese<\/b>&nbsp;will participate in the&nbsp;<b>Youth Jubilee in Rome<\/b>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<b>July 28 to August 3, 2025<\/b>, accompanied by&nbsp;<b>Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine<\/b>&nbsp;of Montreal. This international gathering is a continuation of the&nbsp;<b>World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023<\/b>&nbsp;and paves the way for the&nbsp;<b>WYD in Seoul in 2027<\/b>.<\/p>\n\n<p>This will be a memorable moment:&nbsp;<b>their first encounter with the new pope<\/b>, at the very heart of the universal Church. They will join&nbsp;<b>hundreds of young Canadians<\/b>&nbsp;from several dioceses, as well as&nbsp;<b>thousands of others from around the world<\/b>, for a week of prayer, dialogue, celebration, and fraternity.<\/p>\n\n<p>The program will include:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>An opening Mass in St. Peter&#8217;s Square<\/li>\n\t<li>Cultural, spiritual, and missionary activities throughout the city<\/li>\n\t<li>A day of penance at the Circo Massimo<\/li>\n\t<li>A large vigil and Mass with the Holy Father at Tor Vergata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>As is traditional at these large gatherings,&nbsp;<b>young Canadians will also experience a national gathering in Rome<\/b>\u2014a special moment of communion and missionary sending.<\/p>\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<b>Archdiocese of Montreal<\/b>&nbsp;will be represented by a dynamic delegation from various parish, cultural and spiritual communities, including:&nbsp;<i>Holy Name of Jesus, Monte Carmelo, Notre-Dame d\u2019\u00c9gypte, Saint-Roch, St John Fisher, the Marie-Reine-des-C\u0153urs Shrine, the Neocatechumenal Way, the Chinese Catholic Mission of Montreal<\/i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Jeunesse Melkite (Eparchy of Saint-Sauveur)<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>We invite you to keep these young people in your prayers<\/b>, so that this pilgrimage may bear fruit for them, for our Church, and for the world.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>A huge thank you to all the benefactors and communities who have supported this initiative with generosity and faith.<\/b>&nbsp;Thanks to you, this experience of faith and communion is possible.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Follow their journey and the highlights of the Jubilee on our social media!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the invitation of Pope Francis,&nbsp;young people from our diocese&nbsp;will participate in the&nbsp;Youth Jubilee in Rome&nbsp;from&nbsp;July 28 to August 3,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}