From Paris to Rome, members of the Frat’Trinité will participate in the Jubilee of the Poor

In the darkness of autumn, how good it is to see a door open into the cellar of the Sainte-Rita chapel, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris! Since 2018, this space has hosted Frat’Trinité meetings.

Every Monday evening as well as one Saturday per month, people living in precarious conditions and faithful from the Trinity parish meet there. “The challenge is to recognize each other as brothers and sisters,” explains one of the leaders.

Twenty-five people from the group are leaving for Rome from November 13 to 16, 2025, culminating in World Day of the Poor, as part of the Jubilee of Hope. Launched by Pope Francis in 2017, this Day aims to give them more space in the Church.

Members set aside a small amount, the rest is paid by the parish. The trip is by train and bus: one day there, one day return. For these men and women, this is an exceptional event.

Intense brotherhood

Like all the pilgrims of this jubilee year, they will pass through the “holy doors”, opened in the five major basilicas of the city. This journey of faith will end on Sunday with mass and a shared meal in Saint Peter’s Square with the Pope – a tradition launched by Francis, and a first for Léon.

Sabrina, baptized in 2019, expects “a renewal” of this pilgrimage. “I want to be closer to my Jesus, to love and pray more and more.”

Mario, returning to the “Frat’” after hospitalization, has a striking memory of the intense brotherhood experienced between participants, during the two editions in which he has already participated: “There is faith that comes out and sometimes tears that flow.”

Sylvie hopes to “see the grandeur of churches and monuments”, but also, in a more intimate way, “to regain confidence. We all have our past, but we are moving towards the light,” she says.

See the Pope: this desire is not anecdotal for France, who devotes a lot of his time to praying for others, including for Leo XIV. For Marc, a Tamil who arrived in France forty-six years ago, the pope symbolizes a form of continuity in a life disrupted by precariousness. As a child, he served mass in his hometown: “I have always been Catholic. There, like here.”