2025 Jubilee
Pope Francis officially announced the Jubilee Year on May 9, 2024, with the Bull of Indiction, Spes non confundit (Hope does not disappoint). The Jubilee will run from December 24, 2024, to January 6, 2026. The theme for this special year is "Pilgrims of Hope," aimed at promoting peace in a world struggling with war, climate change, and illness. This Jubilee Year provides Catholics an opportunity to visit holy sites, perform acts of kindness, seek forgiveness for sins, and renew their relationship with God, one another, and creation.
Throughout the Jubilee Year, the faithful will have opportunities to participate in various events both at the Vatican and within dioceses worldwide. A significant tradition of the Jubilee is the opening of the Holy Door, which Pope Francis will begin on December 24, 2024, at St. Peter’s Basilica. Other Holy Doors will be opened at the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. For those unable to travel to Rome, bishops worldwide will designate local cathedrals or important Catholic shrines as special places for pilgrimage, offering opportunities for reconciliation, plenary indulgences, and faith renewal.
Jubilee Year of Hope
Celebrate with the Diocese of Orange
https://www.rcbo.org/hope/
The Jubilee Prayer
Father in heaven,
may the faith you have given us
in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,
and the flame of charity enkindled
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
reawaken in us the blessed hope
for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us
into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos
in the sure expectation
of a new heaven and a new earth,
when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,
your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee
reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread
the joy and peace of our Redeemer
throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed,
be glory and praise for ever.
Amen
-Prayer of Pope Francis
https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/preghiera.html
Additional resources at
https://www.usccb.org/jubilee2025
