Pilgrimage Of Faith

20/01/2026

Franciscan Jubilee Year Proclaimed for the 800th Anniversary of the Transitus of St. Francis

Assisi, Italy — January 10, 2026 marks the official opening of the Eighth Centenary of the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, a historic Franciscan Jubilee proclaimed by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the passing of the Poverello of Assisi (1226–2026).
The announcement of the Franciscan Jubilee was formally made on October 3, 2025, at the Papal Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels in Assisi during the celebration of the First Vespers of the Transitus of St. Francis. On behalf of all the Ministers General of the Franciscan Family, the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Br. Massimo Fusarelli, OFM, proclaimed the opening of this extraordinary centenary.

This event marks the culmination of the great Franciscan Jubilee journey from 2023 to 2026, which retraced the final blessed years of St. Francis’ life:

the approval of the Bull Rule and the Christmas of Greccio (2023),
the gift of the Stigmata (2024),
the composition of the Canticle of the Creatures (2025),
and now, the commemoration of his Transitus — his passage from earthly life to eternal glory (2026).
Reflecting on the final stanza of the Canticle of the Creatures, where St. Francis praises God “for our sister bodily death,” Br. Massimo emphasized that the Saint teaches humanity to welcome death not as an enemy, but as a sister, embraced with faith, hope, and love. “Every human life is precious and finds its definitive meaning in the Mystery of Christ,” he said, calling the Transitus not a sunset, but a dawn — “the dawn of a presence that for eight centuries has continued to illuminate the path of humanity according to the heart of God.”

In continuity with the Jubilee Year of Hope 2025, the Centenary of the Transitus is presented as a powerful proclamation of life, reconciliation, peace, and hope in a world still wounded by wars, violence, and violations of human dignity.

A Special Jubilee Year of St. Francis (2026–2027)
By decree of Pope Leo XIV, a special Jubilee Year of St. Francis will be celebrated from January 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027. During this sacred year, all the Christian faithful are invited to follow the example of St. Francis of Assisi by becoming witnesses of peace, humility, holiness of life, and evangelical charity.

The Apostolic Penitentiary grants a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions to those who devoutly participate in this extraordinary Jubilee, which serves as an ideal continuation of the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025.
The Jubilee is addressed in a special way to the members of the Franciscan Family — the First, Second, Third Regular and Secular Orders — as well as to Institutes of Consecrated Life, Societies of Apostolic Life, and all those inspired by Franciscan spirituality. However, the grace of this Jubilee is extended to all the faithful who, with sincere repentance and faith, make a pilgrimage to any Franciscan church or shrine dedicated to St. Francis anywhere in the world.

The elderly, the sick, and those unable to travel may also obtain the indulgence by spiritually uniting themselves to the Jubilee celebrations and offering their prayers, sufferings, and sacrifices to God.

Conditions for Receiving the Plenary Indulgence
(for oneself or for the deceased)

*Sacramental Confession (within eight days before or after)
-Participation in the Holy Mass and Eucharistic Communion
-Pilgrimage to a Franciscan church or place dedicated to St. Francis
-Recitation of the Creed
-Recitation of the Lord’s Prayer
-Prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father*

A Call to Renew Franciscan Hope
As the Franciscan Family and the entire Church commemorate eight centuries of Franciscan memory, all the faithful are invited to take active part in this historic Jubilee. May the shining witness of St. Francis — poor, humble, and a true alter Christus — inspire a renewed commitment to charity, fraternity, peace, and care for all creation.
Following in the footsteps of the Saint of Assisi, may this Jubilee Year become for every believer a providential time of grace, conversion, and authentic evangelical witness for the glory of God and the good of the whole Church.
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28/12/2025

JUBILEE YEAR TIMELINE

The Jubilee finds its roots in the biblical tradition, where every fiftieth year was set aside for forgiveness, liberation, and renewal. In the Catholic Church, Holy Years invite the faithful to conversion, pilgrimage, and deeper communion with God. Ordinary Jubilees occur at regular intervals, while extraordinary Jubilees are proclaimed for special occasions or particular needs of the Church.

• 2000 – Great Jubilee (Ordinary)
Marked the Church’s entry into the Third Millennium and called the faithful to renewal and conversion.

• 2016 – Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
Proclaimed to emphasize God’s mercy through reconciliation and works of charity.

• 2025 – Ordinary Jubilee: Pilgrims of Hope
Invites the Church to walk forward as pilgrims, rooted in Christ and sustained by hope.

• 2033 – Extraordinary Jubilee: Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ and Birth of the Church (forthcoming)
Celebrated to reflect on the central mysteries of Christ’s saving work and the foundation of the Catholic Church, calling all to deeper faith and renewal.

• 2050 – Ordinary Jubilee (forthcoming)
Continues the Church’s tradition of Holy Years, reminding the faithful that grace and renewal remain ever before us.

11/11/2025

10/11/2025

Beautiful Chapel inside Trinoma Mall Quezon City

The Mary Mother of Hope Chapel inside Trinoma is located on the 4th level of Landmark Complex. It was inaugurated on September 8, 2017, blessed by Most Reverend Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D., Bishop of Cubao.

01/11/2025

We can obtain a Plenary Indulgence EVERY DAY in November for the holy souls in purgatory! Here's what's required:
☑️Be in the State of Grace (e.g. go to Confession and received Holy Communion)
☑️Prayerfully visit a cemetery or columbarium (like our Memorial Garden)
☑️Pray for the Pope's intentions (often an Our Father + Apostles Creed)
☑️Be free of attachment to sin

01/11/2025

Order of Family Prayer Visiting the Cemetery

01/11/2025

Schedule of Masses
Mary, Mother of Hope Chapel
Landmark Trinoma Complex, Quezon City

01/11/2025

The Solemnity of All Saints honors all men and women who have entered Heaven, but we particularly focus on those who led extraordinarily holy lives and whom the Church has canonized as saints. They honored God in various ways: through deep prayer and mystical union, through martyrdom or persecution, or through service, such as caring for the needy. The saints include powerful preachers, miracle workers, and leaders, while others lived in obscurity or exile.

By honoring the saints, we honor and glorify God Who made them holy. Heaven will be the eternal glory of God through the lives of His saints. In Heaven, the saints’ virtues, sacrifices, prayers, and service will eternally manifest God’s mercy and goodness. Every saint in Heaven will join a continuous chorus of angelic praise and worship of God. With the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, the saints will cry “Holy, Holy, Holy…” With the Dominions, Virtues, and Powers, the saints will participate in God’s providential care of the New Heavens and Earth. With the Principalities, Archangels, and Guardian Angels, the saints will celebrate God’s protection and continuous communication with His sons and daughters. Heaven today, and the New Heavens and Earth at the end of time, will be a continuous solemn celebration of God in His essence and of all that He has done in the lives of those who responded to His grace.

Honoring the saints is an invitation to each of us to strive for the holiness the saints attained. The saints’ lives are a “how to” book in holiness. We study and ponder the lives of the “super saints”—such as the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saints Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Ávila, Thérèse of Lisieux, Augustine of Hippo, and Thomas Aquinas—to learn from their examples. From Heaven, the saints are our powerful intercessors. God uses the saints and angels to mediate His grace. We rely upon their intercession as an act of faith by which we profess our belief in God.

Today’s solemnity has its roots in the earliest days of the Church. Even in New Testament times, the community of believers honored martyrs, beginning with the deacon Saint Stephen. More martyrs followed, as the Church suffered persecution under the Roman emperors from AD 64 through 311.

After Emperor Constantine I legalized Christianity in 313, public devotion to the martyrs flourished, their graves becoming churches and places of pilgrimage and prayer. On May 13, 609, Pope Boniface IV transformed the Roman Pantheon, a pagan temple, into a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. On November 1, 731, Pope Gregory III dedicated an oratory within Saint Peter’s Basilica to “all saints,” including the Apostles, martyrs, confessors, and all holy men and women, broadening commemoration of the saints to all who lived saintly lives. In 844, Pope Gregory IV extended the November 1 celebration to the entire Church. In 1484, Pope Sixtus IV made November 1 a holy day of obligation, adding a vigil day and octave to make the celebration nine days in all. The vigil for All Hallows’ Day was called All Hallows’ Eve, or Halloween, which has unfortunately lost its saintly focus and has become a secular, and even pagan, celebration.

(Source: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/november-1-all-saints/)

21/10/2025

FEAST OF ST. PEDRO CALUNGSOD, Young Martyr and catechist
October 21, 2025 Tuesday

Pedro Calungsod, was a teen-aged native of the Visayas region of the Philippines. He was one of the boy catechists who went with some Spanish Jesuits missionaries from the Philippines to the Landrones Islands, later renamed “Marianas” in 1668 to evangelize the Chamorros. On April 2, 1672, while helping Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores, the rector of the Mission, to recover a runaway servant and to do some baptism at the village of Tomhon on the Island of Guam, he was killed by two natives for his being a Christian, for catechizing the Chamorros, and for helping the administration of the Sacrament of baptism. His body was thrown into the deep ocean together with that of the rector who was also killed after him.
[Source: ORDO 2025]

Collect of the day:
All-powerful and eternal God,
You made Saint Pedro, faithful in the preaching of the Gospel,
even to the point of shedding his blood.
By his merits and intercession,
grant that we may also be strong in faith to persevere until death.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
Who lives and reign with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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GOSPEL (JOHN 12: 24-26)
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.”
- The Gospel of the Lord. -
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PRAYER TO SAN PEDRO CALUNGSOD
San Pedro Calungsod student, catechist, young migrant, missionary, faithful friend, martyr, you inspire us by your fidelity in time of adversity; by your courage in teaching the Faith in the midst of hostility; and by your love in shedding your blood for the sake of the Gospel.

Make our prayers your own
(pause to mention your intentions)
and intercede for us before the throne of Mercy and Grace so that, as we experience the help of Heaven, we may be encouraged to live and proclaim the Gospel here on earth.
Amen.
San Pedro Calungsod, pray for us! 🙏

19/10/2025

Thank You Lord, for the opportunity to have this Pilgrimage and keeping us safe from any harm. Your grace never fails.

19/10/2025

Grateful for this trip. Thankful for the privilege to serve.