Because we are children of the Church
For the third time in its history, the SSPX will have the distinguished grace of experiencing the 25-year Roman Jubilee. In 1975, in the presence of its founder, Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, and then in 2000, the St. Pius X Fraternity pilgrimaged to Rome to participate in this great spiritual event. Between August 19 and 21, 2025, the District of France of the SSPX will carry out its jubilee pilgrimage to Rome and hopes, on this occasion, to bring together as many faithful as possible.
We will go to Rome to walk those streets laden with the history of the Church, to pray in the basilicas following in the footsteps of so many saints and holy men and women, in the footsteps of so many Christians who came to visit the tombs of the Apostles.
We will go to Rome, Catholic Rome, Apostolic Rome, the Rome of the martyrs, to proclaim our faith, to sing our love for Our Lord Jesus Christ, to reap the abundant fruits of His Redemption.
We are going to Rome to purify ourselves of our sins, to obtain indulgences for our sins and to sanctify our souls in this city of grace. Let us make a pilgrimage of faith, of prayer, of penance, to obtain those indulgences that the Church draws with particular generosity from her spiritual treasury during this Holy Year and distributes them widely for the salvation of our souls.
We will go to Rome to proclaim and manifest our unwavering attachment to the Apostolic See, to the Pope successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, to the bishops successors of the Apostles, to the priests their collaborators, and to the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church.
We will go to Rome, simply because we are Catholics, children of the Church, and because we want to remain Catholics no matter what happens.
And it is precisely because we are and want to be Catholics that, during this Jubilee pilgrimage, with a special intensity (although, of course, we already do it every day), we will pray for the Pope, for the bishops, for the priests, for the whole Church, so that, in the terrible crisis she is going through, to which we are all sorrowful witnesses and victims, she may regain her splendor, with a faith fully rooted in her bimillennial Tradition and intrepidly proclaimed for the salvation of the world.
We will therefore go to Rome “for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, for the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, for the love of the Church, for the love of the Pope, for the love of the bishops, priests, and all the faithful, for the salvation of the world, for the salvation of souls,” and first and foremost for the salvation of our own souls.
Source: La Porte latine
