Through their green jackets they have become a standard in Via Della Konision and Plaza de San Cotton: they are the volunteers of the holy year, the youth of all continents dedicated to the pension event. They say how their days are for the Vatican media, the service for pilgrims and how they have become accustomed to live in the residential Domas Speech that welcomes them at the Historical Center of Rome.
Isabella H. D Carvalho – Vatican City
Some steps from Piaza Venezuena, within a remedy of Rome’s Historical Center, the four -Story building has a special name on the intercom: “House of Hope”Gaza de la Esperansa. You reach a metal fence and many corridors and reach the lifts that lead to the last floor. When the doors are opened, a green poster that first attracts attention, with the same color of Jubilee volunteers, with the inscription “welcome” written in many languages. However, on the left, a long pavement room with multiple doors leads to the canteen, from there, the San Cotton Domes is divided. Volunteers from Italy and all over the world have decided to dedicate a portion of their time to Jubilee for the year, and the pilgrims who come to the eternal city with a hundred beds, with a hundred beds.
Volunteers from all continents
“We have received 13,000 applications,” the coordinator of the volunteer service, Marco Lucande, explains that it will be accurately dedicated to the volunteer world on March 8 and 9. “We have people from all continents: Singapore, Taiwan, South America, North America.” There are 45 travel volunteers this week, and they come for a short time for at least a week, and 55 permanent, at least three months long.
A common day
The day -to -day service in the dining room of “Domus Spee” begins with breakfast, from the Della Conceion to 7.30 to 13.30, and then the afternoon service. Some also take care of the other parts of the Rome, such as the Fikumicino Airport or the Termini Station. At night, they turn to the Domas Spey, eat dinner, play in their rooms or dining room or chat.
Jose and gratitude for providing a service
Among the permanent volunteers, Jos Maria Ignacio, who transformed the “Domas” into their home. After volunteering in his hometown on World Youth Day in 2023, the church is available for 25 years from Lisbon and Communist and Liberation Member (CL). He is a evil of the “dissatisfaction” he experienced in life, especially in his work. He felt his “re -discovered” hope for CL, and he realized that “God is in my work”, so now he is “gratifying” this service.
“Here we have the opportunity to see Christ emerged on the face of the people,” he says. For example, Samuel, in pilgrims like a young Roman, sings the Plaza de Chan Point every day, or other volunteers such as Savio, “overflowing”.
Maria and last school holidays as a volunteer
Maria, an 18 -year -old high school student from Campole, in Paia province, shares similar experience: Rome decided to spend her school holidays as a mobile volunteer. Federate Opera TroSfordo explains the first Lourdes (Opta) and volunteering in the Red Crossing Society, behind these experiences dedicated to those who are needed, “there is always a love, to be close to the needy, in the way of practice or practice.” Maria, he recognizes to spend this week on vacation as a volunteer jubilee, “It is not the most common way among my companions or friends, but he promises to do it after talking to those who have done this service during the mercy of 2016.
Now he believes that he will change the enthusiasm he has experienced, and can convince someone to live the same experience. Although they are “busy days”, Maria says: “I think I will return to the youth’s ceremony, so after graduating from the end of July at the beginning of August.”
Jubilee’s prolonged effects
Not only young people but also pilgrims. “I remember a woman of about 85 people. He told us that she was already volunteer with her husband in June 2000. Both experienced the experience, so they promised to volunteer again in 2025. Unfortunately, her husband died, but she wanted to be a volunteer, and she wanted to be a volunteer.
Like Jubilee 2000, it is expected to have lasting consequences this holy year. “The volunteer here, when he returns, is called as the pilgrims of hope,” says Lukende, “Yes, he has allowed many pilgrims to live in a deep way, but he has the experience of taking home.”
