Cardinal Vicar of the Pope in Rome about the jubilee of young people: we have given everything

The organization of the jubilee of young people meant an extraordinary logistics challenge for the authorities, with about 10,000 people deployed – among civil protection police and agents – and numerous sanitary and security measures, such as water distribution and the use of sprayers to help participants support the intense heat of the summer. Even so, the welcome, the enthusiasm of the volunteers and the spiritual strength of the meetings deeply marked this event that brought together more than one million young people around the world.

“We have given everything to respond with dedication to each support request,” said the vicar general of his holiness for the diocese of Rome, Cardinal Baldassare Reina, a very important part of the machinery that has allowed everything to work.

In a letter sent on Tuesday and signed next to the Episcopal Council, Cardinal Reina thanked those who worked with dedication to welcome thousands of young pilgrims: “We got to work promptly and availability, organizing every aspect to offer a service worthy of beauty of how much we have lived.”

In addition, he acknowledged that “they have not lacked unforeseen or difficulties” and apologized if the diocese did not know how to respond with the desired promptness.

The purple thanked all those involved in the organization and management of this important event of the Holy Year that culminated in Saturday’s vigil and the emotional Eucharist chaired by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, August 3.

The Vicar General of Leo XIV especially thanked the Office for the Youth Pastoral, headed by Fr. Alfredo Tedesco, which created a network of 36 priests referring in each prefecture, who “provided a beautiful service, perhaps hidden in the eyes of many, but very useful to encourage communities, map the reception places, support the animators and anticipate the difficulties in finding difficulties in finding appropriate solutions.”

“It has been beautiful to see the generosity of so many brothers and sisters who, according to their possibilities, did what they could so that the reception was more beautiful and familiar,” added the cardinal, which included in this thanks to the numerous volunteers of the Roman parishes.

Pope Leo XIV will preside over the great Diocesan Assembly on September 19

The Italian cardinal also shared significant news for the next pastoral course: the great diocesan assembly that will be held on September 19 in the Basilica of San Juan de Letán, and which will be chaired by Pope Leo XIV. “Our bishop has accepted with joy to accompany himself the beginning of the new pastoral year and draw the path of our Church,” he announced.

Due to “a particularly intense year, marked by the death of Pope Francis and the beginning of the Ministry of Pope Leo XIV”, the delivery of pastoral lines will be postponed to September. Cardinal Queen already encouraged to “feed the preparation of this assembly with prayer.”

“We entrust ourselves to the intercession of the Holy Cure of Ars to keep us in humility and the desire to grow in holiness,” he says in the letter, which ends with a desire for “serene and restorative summer” for all collaborators.