The Holy Father has decided that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, something which happens every 25 years. The theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”.
The Holy Father has decided that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, something which happens every 25 years.
The theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”, and is a year of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis.
Preparations for the 2025 Year of Jubilee began in Advent 2023, which marked the start of a year of prayer. The Bishops’ Conference have produced resources for the preparatory year of prayer, focusing on the Our Father, as well as resources about Jubilee in the Catholic Church. Here you will find resources for each preparatory year:
For use by parishes, priests, religious, laypeople, and more, these resources will help guide you as you ready yourself for this most vital year in the Church’s life.
“Jubilee” is the name given to a particular year. A time to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.
Letter of the Holy Father Francis for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation for the Jubilee 2025.
The Holy Father has proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee Year, a sacred time of renewal, reflection, and grace celebrated every 25 years.
In anticipation of the Jubilee Year 2025, the year 2024 was dedicated to prayer—a time to seek God’s presence, deepen our faith, and open our hearts to hope.
Here we will explore four Constitutions of Vatican II: Sacrosanctum Concilium - the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Lumen Gentium - Light of the Nations, Dei Verbum - Word of God, Gaudium et spes - the Church in the Modern World.
The official Prayer allows pilgrims from all over the world to use the same words to express gratitude to God for the Jubilee experience and request the grace of forgiveness.
There are six issues challenging us to live the Jubilee in our churches and communities today, this section offers resources on these issues.
The Jubilee, which in itself is expressed as an event of people on pilgrimage to the Holy Door, also uses song as one of the ways of expressing its motto, “Pilgrims of Hope”.
In order to celebrate and commemorate the Jubilee Year 2025, Pilgrims of Hope, CAFOD commissioned an icon from artist Mulugeta Araya in Ethiopia.
The Jubilee 2025 for People with Disabilities, titled Living Fully with Value and Hope, will take place at the serene Hotel Centro Giovanni XXIII in Frascati, Italy, from 26 April to 1 May 2025.
Contact details for the Jubilee Coordinators from all the Dioceses of England and Wales.
