Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope
A Jubilee year is a Holy Year of the forgiveness of sin, conversion and joyful celebration. Jubilee 2025 was proclaimed by Pope Francis in the Papal Bull Spes Non Confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”).
The Jubilee will begin in Rome on the vigil of the Lord’s Nativity on December 24, 2024 with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, and in local dioceses on Holy Family Sunday on December 29. It will conclude in local dioceses the following Holy Family Sunday on December 28, 2025, and in Rome on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, January 6, 2026, with the closing of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.
How to participate in Jubilee 2025
Make a pilgrimage to Rome. You can choose to go with dioceses, parishes, organizations or on your own.
Participate in local celebrations of Jubilee 2025. For those unable to travel to Rome, the Diocese of New Ulm is planning a pilgrimage within the diocese that will go from June 22 - June 29 of 2025. It will start at the Cathedral on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ and end at the Cathedral on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. Opportunities will be available to walk as part of the pilgrimage or make a spiritual pilgrimage from your home. Other diocesan wide events can be found here.
Obtain the Jubilee Indulgence through one of the other means (works of mercy and penance, making a pilgrimage to the Cathedral, etc.) More information on the Jubilee Indulgence can be found here.
Pray for the Pope Francis, the Church, and all who take part in Jubilee 2025.
““The coming Jubilee will thus be a Holy Year marked by the hope that does not fade, our hope in God. May it help us to recover the confident trust that we require, in the Church and in society, in our interpersonal relationships, in international relations, and in our task of promoting the dignity of all persons and respect for God’s gift of creation.” ”