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.
Last week the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) circulated a pastoral letter titled: Forgive us our Debts: Pastoral Letter on Debt Forgiveness in the Jubilee Year 2025. It was released by the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the CCCB.
The letter outlines the current debt crisis impacting many developing countries and calls on “our own government and private creditors in Canada to work with debtor nations to develop – and implement – effective frameworks for debt forgiveness in the spirit of the Jubilee Year.”
In this Jubilee Year 2025 let us continue to seek, find, and be actionable signs of hope!
The digital Pastoral Letter is available online in English and French at the following links:
in English: https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Forgive-Us-Our-Debts_Pastoral-Letter-on-Debt-Forgiveness-in-the-Jubilee-Year-2025.pdf
in French: https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Remets-nous-nos-dettes_Lettre-pastorale-sur-lannulation-de-la-dette-dans-le-cadre-de-lannee-jubilaire-2025.pdf
Jubilee Events Feedback
Jubilee of Catechesis: ~ September 21
- Video Link: youtu.be/JSMvxrIUUqw?si=Y0l-UN9r0vrhGtyF
- Survey Link: forms.office.com/r/DBfknKc5p2
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Jubilee of Evangelization: ~ October 19
Jubilee of Social Justice: ~ November 16
Jubilee of Liturgy: ~ December 7

