Synodal Jubilee Journeys: “Leaning into life”

An anthropological reading of the experience of infirmity and care enlightened by the Christian mystery. The symposium “Leaning into life”, the first of three meetings in the run-up to the Jubilee of 2025, has just come to an end in the Aula Nuova of the Synod at the Vatican.

The meeting, moderated by Father Francesco Occhetta, Secretary General of the Fratelli tutti Foundation, consisted of a plenary listening session, a group session to share participants’ experiences, and a spiritual itinerary in St. Peter’s Basilica during sunset.

Participants had the opportunity to share their experiences of suffering and infirmity, loneliness and care in several contexts and to share their stories of commitment to the most fragile people in facilities, associations or organizations.

This first stage of the approach to the Jubilee experience precedes two other very important appointments.

The first meeting “On the margins of society”, will take place on 17 September 2022 and will consist of a reading, between rhetoric and realism, in pursuit of processes founded on an ethic based on the recognition of universal human rights and the Gospel message. The second meeting, to be held on 3 December 2022, is entitled “Recognising oneself on the threshold of education”. The themes include the vulnerability of humankind, universal solidarity and world-wide responsibility.

The Jubilee meetings in St. Peter’s Basilica will accompany the Jubilee Committee’s proposals to allow a human and spiritual experience for all people of goodwill who identify with the teachings of the Encyclical Fratelli tutti.