Over the past year, me and several fellow Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma have had the privilege of working at the Bishops’ Office for United States Visitors to the Vatican here in Rome — during a Jubilee Year.
Our mission has been welcoming record numbers of pilgrims from all over the U.S to help them prepare for “a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the ‘door’ (cf. John 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere, and to all as ‘our hope’ (1 Timothy 1:1)” (Pope Francis, in “Spes Non Confundit,” (“Hope Does Not Disappoint”) bull announcing the 2025 Jubilee Year).
