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Jubilee 2025

Jubilee Year 2025

This year the Catholic Church universal celebrates an Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025.   In May 2024, Pope Francis released a papal bull declaring the upcoming Jubilee Year and shared his hopes for the year and it’s overarching: hope. He invites Catholics around the word to re-discover the gift of hope. In the bull he wrote:

“May the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the 'door' (cf. Jn 10:7,9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere, and to all as 'our hope' (1 Tim 1:1),”

The Jubilee begins on December 24, 2024 with the official Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica, and runs to January 6, 2026, the Feast Day of Epiphany, with the Closing of the Holy Door.

Happy New Year: It’s A Jubilee Year!!

On December 24, Pope Francis officially opened the Ordinary Jubilee Year of 2025 by opening the Holy Door at Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. He opened his homily with the following words:

An angel of the Lord, bathed in light, illumines the night and brings glad tidings to the shepherds: “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord” (Lk 2:10-11). Heaven breaks forth upon earth amid the wonder of the poor and the singing of angels. God has become one of us to make us like himself; he has come down to us to lift us up and restore us to the embrace of the Father.

Sisters and brothers, this is our hope. God is Emmanuel, God-with-us. The infinitely great has made himself tiny; divine light has shone amid the darkness of our world; the glory of heaven has appeared on earth. And how? As a little child. If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever. Hope does not disappoint!

As we enter in to our Jubilee Year may we answer the call to be Pilgrims of Hope who share the joy of a God who comes close to be with us.

The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth opened the Jubilee Year on  Sunday, December 29 at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica with Archbishop Emeritus Mancini celebrating the Mass.

To keep updated on the ways we will celebrated the Jubilee locally visit: www.halifaxyarmouth.org/jubilee-2025

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