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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.

Jubilee Year Hymn

Parishes are welcome to use this hymn as a way to remind of this special year and to celebrate it. For any musicians out there,  sheet music can be found here (pdf).

Information on the Jubilee hymn and all things related to this special year of God’s favour can be found on the official Jubilee 2025 website: www.iubilaeum2025.va

May we find many ways to express our hope in this Jubilee year and encourage others to do the same!