25-06-2025

75th NATIONAL LITURGICAL WEEK from August 25 to 28 in Naples, Italy

(Please note: the conference will be held in Italian only)

It will be the Church of Naples that will host the 75th National Liturgical Week in the Jubilee Year 2025. The announcement was made by Claudio Maniago, Archbishop of Catanzaro and president of the Center for Liturgical Action (CAL), at the conclusion of the recent meetings held in Modena.

The invitation for Naples was extended to all participants and pastoral liturgy workers in Italy by Auxiliary Bishop Gaetano Castello, who, on behalf of the Archbishop of Naples, Domenico Battaglia, stated that the celebration of the CAL Liturgical Week in the Archdiocese of Naples, from August 25 to 28, 2025, "can only bring good, contributing to further pastoral and spiritual growth."

"You are our hope" – Liturgy: from contemplation to action

The theme of the 2025 National Liturgical Week includes a liturgical and spiritual invocation (cf. the Te Deum hymn and the Praises of God Most High by St. Francis of Assisi), connected to the Jubilee Year, and a statement that directly addresses the subject at hand: Liturgy and life (Lex orandi – Lex vivendi), so central to both the early Church and the Second Vatican Council.

We ask ourselves: Is the Liturgy we celebrate today in the Church truly a space where the faithful can become protagonists of the Christian faith, capable of receiving a hope to offer and share with the world? Or has Liturgy become a moment where people no longer live their lives in the presence of God’s “today,” a place where the real, concrete, daily human experience finds no welcome—a space consumed by a “sacredness” disconnected from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God?

Too often, Liturgy is seen more as a problem to solve than as a resource to draw from. Yet the future of Christianity largely depends on the Church's ability to make its Liturgy the source of believers’ spiritual and active lives: true contemplation that leads to “contempl-action,” as Don Tonino Bello used to say—men and women who begin in contemplation and then allow its energy and commitment to overflow into action.

The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy from the Second Vatican Council already reminds us that the Church “is at the same time active in work and given to contemplation, present in the world and yet a pilgrim” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 2).

The invitation, then, is to live a Liturgy filled with compassion for humanity—ready to set out into the deep and be overwhelmed, as Pope Francis says, by the “ocean of grace that floods every celebration” (Desiderio Desideravi 24), and to allow that ocean, through our witness, to flow back into daily life, giving an Eucharistic shape to our cities and society as a whole.

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