Jubileu do Mundo Educativo

The Catholic Church is celebrating the 25th Jubilee in history, which the Holy Father Francis has chosen to place under the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

The Holy Year encompasses a calendar of major events, including the Jubilee of the World of Education, which will take place from October, 27^th to November, 2^nd 2025.

On Saturday November, 1^st, the Solemnity of All Saints' Day, we will meet in St. Peter's Square in Rome to celebrate the Eucharist together. We want to thank the Lord for the commitment of all those who have the future of the young generations at heart (families, educators, institutions...) and send out a powerful appeal for education to be a creator of fraternity, peace, justice.

It will be the culmination of many projects and initiatives that, everywhere in the world, are already animating places of education, starting with schools and universities, Catholic and non-Catholic. In these vast communities, millions of people, from different cultures, are engaged in building their own life project: Education is truly an act of Hope!

During the week, pilgrims will be invited to pass through the Holy Door and to participate in numerous initiatives. On Thursday 30^th and Friday 31^st October, the programme will be structured around the three languages of education, proposed by Pope Francis:

o   the language of the mind, declined in structured moments of speech and thought around the great challenges of education,

o   the language of the hands, through the Education Village, a physical space in which to present experiences and new models with a view to mutual contamination;

o   the language of the heart, a spiritual proposal and an inner experience so that education knows how to introduce the total reality.

The calendar will be enriched by further proposals, to be elaborated in dialogue with the Church's teaching in the field of education: the conciliar Declaration Gravissimum Educationis (whose 60th anniversary will fall during the Jubilee), the apostolic Constitutions Ex Corde Ecclesiae (35^th anniversary) and Veritatis Gaudium, the recent Global Compact on Education and Culture.

Updates will be made available from time to time on the websites of the Dicastery for Culture and Education (www.dce.va) and of the Jubilee (www.iubilaeum2025.va).