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Jubilee of Consecrated Life USCCB Resource Packet (English)
Pilgrims on the Way of Hope: A Resource for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life
Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Jubilee of Consecrated Life: Resource Packet
October 8-9, 2025
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
The Holy See has designated a number of Jubilee Days throughout 2025 to recognize and celebrate different groups of people and various ministries in the Church. The Jubilee of Consecrated Life will be held from Wednesday, October 8, to Thursday, October 9, 2025; however, these resources can be used for engaging and celebrating consecrated life at any time throughout the Jubilee Year.
Consecrated life is the permanent state of life in which a person deepens their baptismal consecration through profession of the three evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity, and obedience (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 915-930). Within the Catholic Church, forms of consecrated life include religious life, the eremitical life, secular institutes, societies of apostolic life, and consecrated virgins and widows. Consecrated men and women, “like the Apostles... have left everything behind in order to be with Christ and to put themselves, as he did, at the service of God and their brothers and sisters” (Pope John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Vita Consecrata, no. 1).
Through a commitment to a form of life patterned on Christ, "the consecrated life thus becomes one of the tangible seals which the Trinity impresses upon history, so that people can sense with longing the attraction of divine beauty" (Ibid., no. 20). Consecrated persons, in a “spirit of the beatitudes,” visibly witness to the Church and the world the invisible reality of heaven (Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, no. 3). In lives engaged in active ministry or in hidden prayer, consecrated men and women perpetually proclaim the Gospel by virtue of their consecration.
This resource packet is for anyone who finds it useful. It can be used and/or adapted by dioceses, eparchies, religious institutes or societies of apostolic life, parishes, schools, campuses, apostolates, movements, organizations, or individuals to plan their celebration of the Jubilee Days for Consecrated Life. It might also serve as a catalyst or inspiration for the creation and development of local or year-round resources for those active in these associations.
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