Pax et Bonum, Brothers and Sisters!<\/p>\n
We wish to extend an invitation to the entire Capuchin family for this jubilee year.<\/p>\n
This year\u0092s Capuchin Family Day is celebrated in the context of the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025, the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures, and the journey toward the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Capuchin Reform.<\/p>\n
We propose that the way to celebrate this year\u0092s 9th Capuchin Family Day will be through a pilgrimage of the local Capuchin Family to a jubilee church, while meditating on being \u0093pilgrims of hope\u0094 in the light of the Canticle of the Creatures and in the spirituality of our reform. We invite you to plan this initiative in each of your circumscriptions and fraternities to celebrate together the grace of our charism.<\/p>\n
In this motivational setting there will be a pilgrimage and celebration in Rome as well.<\/p>\n
The pilgrimage will take place on Friday, July 4, 2025. We will leave from Piazza Pia (beginning of Via della Conciliazione) at 7:30 a.m. and at 9:00 a.m. we will celebrate the Eucharist at the altar of the Cathedra in the Vatican Basilica with our General Minister Br. Roberto Genuin presiding. All the brothers who are in Rome or who can come are invited, as well as all the other religious men and women of the institutes connected with us and who with us form the great Capuchin family.<\/p>\n