Hello dear pilgrims. We prepared this video to wish a good pilgrimage to all.
Just days before the Jubilee Pilgrimage promoted by La Tenda di Gionata and many other associations, we, as partners of the Pilgrimage, carry with us the enthusiasm and strength of the network experienced at the GNRC Assembly 2025 in Madrid.
From August 21 to 25, at the Resa Colegio Mayor Miguel Antonio Caro, more than one hundred delegates from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America gathered under the theme “Walking Together: Rainbow Challenges After the Synod.” Plenaries, workshops, cultural events, and moments of prayer shaped the days. Speakers such as Cristina Inogés, Sister María Luisa Berzosa, James Alison, Renato Lings, and an African witness (who remained anonymous for security reasons) helped participants to read the challenges of the present and envision the future.
At the opening of the Assembly, a letter from Cardinal José Cobo, Archbishop of Madrid and Vice President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, expressed closeness and encouragement. His message also referred to the Jubilee Pilgrimage in Rome, encouraging participants to live this moment as a path of hope and encounter in the universal Church.
The Assembly reaffirmed the mission of the network: to support LGBTQ+ Catholic communities across continents, to strengthen ecumenical and interfaith collaboration, and to bring our voices into the ongoing synodal process. After Madrid, the horizon naturally expands to Rome.
The Jubilee program includes three key moments: the Prayer Vigil (Friday, September 5, 8:00 pm, Chiesa del Gesù), the Eucharistic Celebration (Saturday, September 6, 11:00 am, Chiesa del Gesù), and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica (Saturday, September 6, 3:00 pm, starting from Piazza Pia). All pilgrims are also invited to attend the Angelus on Sunday, September 7, in St. Peter’s Square, joining the canonizations and prayer with Pope Leo XIV.
GNRC has supported the international preparation of the pilgrimage: from the registration of groups abroad, coordinated through the network, to the joint promotion on its own channels. In Rome, there will also be tangible signs, such as the artistic bookmarks offered to pilgrims—small gifts to carry home as a memory of the journey and the relationships woven together.
Following the Assembly in Madrid, the pilgrimage is another step forward: from global dialogue to the streets of Rome, from shared reflection to the symbolic act of crossing the Holy Door. Both experiences breathe with the same spirit: walking together, giving voice to often invisible communities, recognizing that in the Church there is room for all.
The reflection that emerges is clear: we are not here to claim space alone, but to participate as part of the People of God. The pilgrimage is not a parade, it is an act of faith. The Madrid Assembly was not an isolated congress, but a seed that now finds fertile ground in the Jubilee. The network that GNRC represents will continue to connect local experiences and universal moments, because the synodal journey is not over, and each step, from Madrid to Rome, reminds us that we are not alone.