A significant international group of Sisters of Charity is taking part in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life, which is being held from October 8 to 10, 2025.

Our sisters from the Provincial Governments of Asia, Africa, Europe, the East, and America, together with the General Government and other sisters of different nationalities who are currently in Europe, are taking part, along with thousands of other consecrated men and women, in the Jubilee, which opened with the sound of the yobel, the ram’s horn used in Jewish tradition to announce the beginning of the Holy Year: “It is a beautiful image for us consecrated persons, that of the horn, an empty instrument that allows itself to be filled by a breath, a breath that produces a melody,” explains the Prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life, Sister Simona Brambilla, a Consolata missionary.

“And here we are, like so many different instruments—to recall an image used by Pope Francis—united in an orchestra to play a symphony together, in the diversity and unity of the same symphony.”

For us, Sisters of Charity, 2025-2026 is a special year because we are celebrating the Bicentenary in memory of the birth into heaven of Mother Thouret, founder and tireless servant of charity. For sisters from all over the world, celebrating the Jubilee together and the recent opening of the Bicentennial Year in communion with Pope Leo XIV and with all the various and fruitful forms of consecrated life makes us feel, even more so, our belonging to the Church, committed to evangelization and service to the poor.

Passage through the Holy Door

Prayer vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica

Holy Mass presided over by Leo XIV

Thursday in St. Peter’s Square