Romana

The need for family accompaniment is an urgent call addressed to everyone. The Church wants to reach out to families so that they can discover the best way to overcome the difficulties they encounter on their life journey.

The pastoral care of the family sometimes seems to be limited to offering a series of “spiritual services,” when in reality the faithful need, above all, credible points of reference and spaces in which to share the faith.

On our earthly journey, hope is “the constant companion that guides our steps towards the goal of our encounter with the Lord Jesus” (Spes non confundit, 5). 

The Jubilee will enable us to approach those “oases of spirituality and places of rest on the pilgrimage of faith, where we can drink from the wellsprings of hope, above all by approaching the sacrament of Reconciliation, the essential starting-point of any true journey of conversion” (ibid.).