Rome will host the Claret-Way pilgrimage on the occasion of the 2025 Jubilee of Young People. From 28 July to 4 August, more than 450 Claretian young people will gather to celebrate this Year of Hope.
The countdown is on for the gathering of over 450 Claretian youths for the Jubilee of Young People 2025, taking place from 28 July to 4 August in the city of Rome. They will come from 27 different countries, each with its own language and culture, yet united under one spirit: shared faith, the Claretian charism, and a deep desire to walk together as true Pilgrims of Hope.
This encounter follows the path initiated during World Youth Day in Lisbon, where, under the name Claret-Way, a living network of young people committed to the Claretian mission began to take shape. Now the journey continues towards Rome—with open hearts, feet ready to walk, and the joy of the Gospel as their only luggage.
The gathering will begin on 28 July with “Claret-Way Day”, a moment for the Claret-Way Youth Network to come together under the missionary spirit and charism that unite them.
On 29 July, pilgrims will cross the Holy Door in the morning. In the afternoon, the Holy Father will open the Jubilee by presiding over the Mass.
On 30 July, the “Dialogue with the City” will take place, a time for pilgrims to explore and participate in activities proposed by the general organisation.
On 31 July, the official Claret-Way contribution to the Jubilee will unfold: at 20:00, the “Arde Space” opens in Rome—an evening of prayer and Eucharistic adoration, open to all young people of the world.
On 1 August, a penitential day will take place at the Circus Maximus—a day for sharing, prayer, and receiving the sacrament of reconciliation.
On 2 and 3 August, the pilgrimage to Tor Vergata will be held, where the Holy Father will lead the vigil and, the next day, preside at the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Young People 2025.
On 4 August, after a festive evening on the 3rd, the pilgrims will return home.
These will be days of deep experience: of faith, fraternity and mission. A time of encounters, celebrations, pilgrimages, and shared moments of silence, reconciliation, prayer, singing and missionary sending. Days full of life, with room for joyful fellowship, experience-sharing, play, and appreciation for all that the city and the event have to offer.
This Jubilee is not meant to be just an event, but a clear call to rediscover the missionary identity and vocation of young people. It is a time of grace—a unique opportunity to strengthen bonds and rekindle the fire that drives us to be signs of hope wherever we are. May these days become, for everyone, a new starting point.
WHAT IS CLARET-WAY?
The Claret-Way Network is a global network of Claretian youth, connecting young people aged 18 to 30 from the various realities of the Claretian Family. It brings together local and regional initiatives in Youth and Vocational Ministry (YVM), within the broader context of the Church’s universal mission, lived in the Claretian charism and in the footsteps of Jesus.
The network works through four action lines: communion, solidarity, familiarity and participation; guided by the four cardinal points of the apostolic prayer of St Anthony Mary Claret: to know, to love, to serve and to praise.
