Rome, July 26-28, 2025

What a beautiful initiative to celebrate the Holy Jubilee Year, “Pilgrims of Hope,” together with the fourth anniversary of the departure of Mother Trinidad from our midst on July 28, 2021.

Around 200 Italian and Spanish pilgrims from The Work of the Church gathered in Rome to experience this jubilant event of the Catholic Church with a universal spirit, along with the moving remembrance of Mother Trinidad on her anniversary.

“She was a Virgin, she was a Mother, she was a Queen, she was a Lady.”

On Saturday the 26th, we met at the obelisk in Piazza dell’Esquilino, facing the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, to pass through the Holy Door with a contrite and humbled spirit and as representatives of all the members of our great spiritual family, and then celebrate Holy Mass at the altar of the Salus Populi Romani.

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Presided over by Monsignor Andrea Bruno Mazzocato, an adherent Bishop of The Work of the Church, we experienced an intense moment of purification to further refine our being Church. “She was a Virgin, she was a Mother, she was a Queen, she was a Lady,” an expression that Mother has transmitted to us since that March 25, 1962, so that we might have absolute confidence that the Virgin will always console the Holy Mother Church in her affliction and her tiny Work of the Church on its journey. The Litany of the Saints, the Psalms, the songs, and the fervor led us to the heart of the basilica, the house of the Virgin, the Bethlehem of Rome.

“Go and tell it, this is for everyone” and “The Work of the Church always with the Pope.”

The next day, Sunday the 27th, we again met in Piazza Pio to walk the Via della Conciliazione, which led us to contemplate the New Jerusalem, full of beauty, that comes to meet us—welcoming and maternal, awe-inspiring and universal, in the Vatican Basilica. Again, Mother Trinidad prepares us with her words: “Go and tell it, this is for everyone,” with a universal mission, guaranteed because “The Work of the Church always with the Pope” will fulfill its mission of presenting the beauty of the Church.

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What a breadth of vision! What grandeur of horizons! What an unforgettable impact!

It was a living encounter with the Holy Mother Church. As we approached St. Peter’s Square, which was also prepared for the celebration of the great day of Corpus Christi with the Pope, who walked the colonnade with the Eucharist and the people of God who followed the procession without moving from their places, adoring the Most High, the palpitation of the soul increased. “Come, let us go up to the holy temple of God,” says the inscription, calling the pilgrims to enter the basilica, that is, into the Mystery of the Church made into sacred architecture.

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We greeted the Lord in the Tabernacle, which coincides with the exact measurement of the Seville Cathedral on the floor of the basilica: it must be for a reason: “Beat strongly, heart of mine!”

We made the profession of faith before the Altar of the Confession, united with Peter the fisherman of Galilee and with Peter alive in Pope Leo XIV. We pronounced the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, proclaiming the Faith of the Church: the Creed. And Mother Church purified our souls with a plenary indulgence. The words of Mother Trinidad, spoken by her on her last visit, resonated again: “What a basilica we have!” Or, seeing the number of distracted tourist-pilgrims inside the temple: “Poor things, they don’t know where they are. No one has yet told them.” They don’t know the beauty of the Church, and that’s why they are lost in there.

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Due to the logistical impossibility of undertaking Mother Trinidad’s “My little pilgrimage”, we made a long stop to adore Jesus in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. We stood before St. John XXIII, remembering the “With everything to the Pope, with everything to John XXIII…” in 1959. A mandatory stop was made to pay homage to St. John Paul II, who received Mother’s message with an open and grateful heart. We concluded before the mosaic of the Navicella in the atrium, before which Saint Catherine of Siena used to pray and weep for the situation of the Holy Church of God in her time. How could we not remember the tears of the Church that Mother Trinidad collected and kept in the case of her soul as her most precious treasure!

And at 12 o’clock, the Angelus with Pope Leo!!! Pilgrims from all over the world acclaimed with one heart the Peter of our time, who makes us universal.

“Even though I’ve seen you sad.”

In the afternoon, we went to St. Paul Outside the Walls to gather the apostolic ardor of the great Apostle. “Even though I’ve seen you sad,” Mother Trinidad poetically says to the Holy Church to encourage us to sing the Song of the Church with her throughout the world. Again, the Holy Door, the Litany of the Saints, Psalms and songs, repentance and resolutions, zeal for the Glory of God. Monsignor Mazzocato reminded us of this in the solemn Holy Mass celebrated in the apse of the basilica. Here, too, we remembered the times of the Second Vatican Council, a project of God intertwined with the life and mission of Mother Trinidad. This is the basilica where in 2021 we said our earthly farewell to Mother, hoping to see each other in Eternity.

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“But how much and how we love each other with Mother.”

And finally, on July 28th, the fourth anniversary of Mother’s departure from our midst. We visited the House of St. Peter the Apostle, full of memories and teachings with the “presence” of Mother. A concelebrated Holy Mass by three adherent Bishops, many priests, and a packed-to-the-rafters parish church of Our Lady of Valme. A simple celebration, yet how solemn and how endearing it all was!

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It seemed that love and unity floated in the air among all, as we said to ourselves without speaking it aloud: “But how much and how we have loved each other with Mother” in the past and in these days. It is only the beginning of a “how much and how we love each other in The Work of the Church” when we live our being Church with our beloved Bishops as a simple and small people of God that makes Mother smile in Eternity.

Fr. Alfredo Fernández Martín