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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.

Next Year is a Jubilee Year!

Next year, 2025 is a Jubilee Year!

To celebrate this significant year in the life of our Church, the Holy Father calls us to be pilgrims of hope for he wrote: "We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. " .

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.

The Pope has asked bishops around the world to open the Jubilee in their diocese on December 29, 2024. In light of this, Archbishop Dunn invites the faithful to join in the opening of the Jubilee Year in the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth at one of the following Masses:

  • Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica at 10:30am, Celebrant: Archbishop Emeritus Anthony Mancini
  • Saint Ambrose Co-Cathedral at 11:00am, Celebrant: Fr. Henry Smolenaars

All are welcome!

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