Vatican Announces 6 New Activities of the Jubilee Including the Pope's Monthly Magazine and a Webcam on St Peter's Tomb!
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Beginning this Christmas Eve, the Vatican will open its gates to an estimated 35 million pilgrims for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. At a press conference, 6 new activities of the Jubilee were revealed (See below)
The Catholic Holy Year ordinarily occurs once every 25 years, and the Jubilee is a chance for the faithful to visit holy sites, perform pious works, and have their sins remitted. The Pope grants plenary indulgence to Jubilee pilgrims on December 24, with the opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica.
The upcoming Jubilee follows 2024’s Year of Prayer, which Pope Francis declared as a preparatory period for personal meditations on God and the Catholic vocation. This year’s theme is Pilgrims of Hope, chosen to promote peacebuilding in a world threatened by ongoing wars.
The church will expand its opening hours, along with providing a revised edition of its pilgrim guide from the last Jubilee in 2000. The pamphlet will provide practical advice and spiritual guidance about what it means to be a pilgrim, particularly for those not already travelling with a tour group or home diocese.
A new magazine journal will be published monthly, a lot of space will be dedicated by the magazine to the meeting with readers: editorials, columns, letters and, above all, the Pope's monthly response to a letter. Entitled, Piazza San Pietro, it offers itself as a “travelling companion” in the journey of life and in the search for truth. If we are together, with the guidance of Christ and his first helmsman - Peter and his successors - the landing will certainly be easier.
On 2 December the Pope himself will look at the tomb of the Apostle for the first time through the eye of a camera; he will inaugurate the use of a webcam that will allow people to visually connect to the place that witnessed the burial of the Apostle and preserves his memory, and will allow anyone to share with their brothers and sisters scattered around the world a prayer intention, a message, a friendly word.
On 2 December the Pope himself will look at the tomb of the Apostle for the first time through the eye of a camera; he will inaugurate the use of a webcam that will allow people to visually connect to the place that witnessed the burial of the Apostle and preserves his memory, and will allow anyone to share with their brothers and sisters scattered around the world a prayer intention, a message, a friendly word.
JUBILEE 2025 THE 6 KEY ACTIVITIES OF THE PLAN
1) A NEW FONT AND A NEW SITE:
In 2025 we will present a new font, an original typographical character, conceived to celebrate the beauty of Saint Peter’s Basilica and the religious, historical, cultural and artistic heritage it represents.
Optimized to guarantee clear legibility on paper and digital supports, the font will also be used on the Basilica website, which will have renewed graphics and a contemporary and sustainable design, and will offer a streamlined navigation experience to enable access to constantly updated content, like the new paper journal.
The font and the site, both the work of the Studiogusto creative and technical team (www.studiogust.com) will be launched in 2025.
2) A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ROOM inside the Fabric of Saint Peter will allow journalists and media operators to be welcomed for meetings and briefings.
3) THE JOURNAL “PIAZZA SAN PIETRO”: The communicative challenge of Pope Francis, who first appeared on world television and succeeded in giving every person the impression that he was addressing each of us, now becomes the editorial line of Piazza San Pietro. As a modern journal in the age of globalization, Piazza San Pietro intends to speak to the whole world, through themes and signatures of international personalities. But it is also intended to speak to each individual, as announced by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, with a column in which the “Editor”, the Holy Father, will personally reply to readers' letters.
Communication guided by the Word of God, offering awareness and orientation, is important. In an age of challenges for newspapers, the printed magazine offers a quality space for witnessing to human and Christian values and the dignity of every person. The mission of the journal is to reach the homes of every city AND COUNTRY, in line with the idea of an outgoing AND SYNODAL Church, giving space to those who wish to speak.
The magazine will be available at the Official Area of the Basilica or by postal subscription.
ISSUE ZERO OF “PIAZZA SAN PIETRO”
The first issue of St Peter's Square that we are presenting this morning is actually an issue zero, the symbol of an editorial staff that wants to be as open as the Fabric of Saint Peter, which continues to safeguard and build the Basilica.
A journal that is a builder of dialogue, peace, welcome, inclusion, democracy, reconciliation, which needs the contribution of everyone, of the faithful and of all the people who wish to offer suggestions, criticism, proposals, of communication professionals as well as the poor of Saint Peter's Square.
We need everyone's comments to correct, to integrate, to open up to everyone. Starting with this issue zero, which is intended to be a “technical transmission test”.
4) WEBCAM: TOMB OF ST. PETER
Thirty million pilgrims will pass through the Holy Door and descend to the Vatican Crypt. An intimate and mass experience, which billions of people will be able to share remotely through a webcam positioned on the Tomb of Saint Peter, approaching the mystery of the fisherman who had himself crucified upside down to stand tall before his Lord, giving rise to a pilgrimage that has continued uninterrupted for two millennia. May virtuality strengthen presences so that the net can generate proximity and communion, and make Jesus present in one's own life.
5) PRESENCE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: The Basilica will use social media to share its love for this sacred place and connect the faithful with the centre of Christianity. The language will be simple and accessible, to create meaningful relationships, never forgetting that the mission in digital spaces must be filled with humanity and the search for peace in justice.
THE THREE CRITERIA FOR ACTION
Pope Francis has given us the three criteria that will guide our work: the listening of prayer, the gaze of faith, the pilgrim's touch. May these senses, at once corporeal and spiritual, intelligently order the initiatives to be carried out.
(Audience to the Technicians and Partners of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, 11.11.2024) I tre criteri che faranno da argine e che guidano la nostra opera ce li ha donati papa Francesco: the listening of prayer, the gaze of faith, the pilgrim's touch. Let these senses, at once bodily and spiritual, intelligently order the initiatives to be taken
(Audience with Technicians and Partners of the Fabric of Saint Peter, 11.11.2024)
1) A NEW FONT AND A NEW SITE:
In 2025 we will present a new font, an original typographical character, conceived to celebrate the beauty of Saint Peter’s Basilica and the religious, historical, cultural and artistic heritage it represents.
Optimized to guarantee clear legibility on paper and digital supports, the font will also be used on the Basilica website, which will have renewed graphics and a contemporary and sustainable design, and will offer a streamlined navigation experience to enable access to constantly updated content, like the new paper journal.
The font and the site, both the work of the Studiogusto creative and technical team (www.studiogust.com) will be launched in 2025.
2) A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ROOM inside the Fabric of Saint Peter will allow journalists and media operators to be welcomed for meetings and briefings.
3) THE JOURNAL “PIAZZA SAN PIETRO”: The communicative challenge of Pope Francis, who first appeared on world television and succeeded in giving every person the impression that he was addressing each of us, now becomes the editorial line of Piazza San Pietro. As a modern journal in the age of globalization, Piazza San Pietro intends to speak to the whole world, through themes and signatures of international personalities. But it is also intended to speak to each individual, as announced by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, with a column in which the “Editor”, the Holy Father, will personally reply to readers' letters.
Communication guided by the Word of God, offering awareness and orientation, is important. In an age of challenges for newspapers, the printed magazine offers a quality space for witnessing to human and Christian values and the dignity of every person. The mission of the journal is to reach the homes of every city AND COUNTRY, in line with the idea of an outgoing AND SYNODAL Church, giving space to those who wish to speak.
The magazine will be available at the Official Area of the Basilica or by postal subscription.
ISSUE ZERO OF “PIAZZA SAN PIETRO”
The first issue of St Peter's Square that we are presenting this morning is actually an issue zero, the symbol of an editorial staff that wants to be as open as the Fabric of Saint Peter, which continues to safeguard and build the Basilica.
A journal that is a builder of dialogue, peace, welcome, inclusion, democracy, reconciliation, which needs the contribution of everyone, of the faithful and of all the people who wish to offer suggestions, criticism, proposals, of communication professionals as well as the poor of Saint Peter's Square.
We need everyone's comments to correct, to integrate, to open up to everyone. Starting with this issue zero, which is intended to be a “technical transmission test”.
4) WEBCAM: TOMB OF ST. PETER
Thirty million pilgrims will pass through the Holy Door and descend to the Vatican Crypt. An intimate and mass experience, which billions of people will be able to share remotely through a webcam positioned on the Tomb of Saint Peter, approaching the mystery of the fisherman who had himself crucified upside down to stand tall before his Lord, giving rise to a pilgrimage that has continued uninterrupted for two millennia. May virtuality strengthen presences so that the net can generate proximity and communion, and make Jesus present in one's own life.
5) PRESENCE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: The Basilica will use social media to share its love for this sacred place and connect the faithful with the centre of Christianity. The language will be simple and accessible, to create meaningful relationships, never forgetting that the mission in digital spaces must be filled with humanity and the search for peace in justice.
THE THREE CRITERIA FOR ACTION
Pope Francis has given us the three criteria that will guide our work: the listening of prayer, the gaze of faith, the pilgrim's touch. May these senses, at once corporeal and spiritual, intelligently order the initiatives to be carried out.
(Audience to the Technicians and Partners of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, 11.11.2024) I tre criteri che faranno da argine e che guidano la nostra opera ce li ha donati papa Francesco: the listening of prayer, the gaze of faith, the pilgrim's touch. Let these senses, at once bodily and spiritual, intelligently order the initiatives to be taken
(Audience with Technicians and Partners of the Fabric of Saint Peter, 11.11.2024)
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