The next Ordinary Jubilee will be celebrated in the year 2025. The theme will be “Pilgrims of Hope”. For more information, visit www.iubilaeum2025.va, the offical website of the Jubilee Year.
Ordinary Jubilees are celebrated every 25 years. The last one was the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
Heading: | Vatican launches Jubilee Calendar website and app |
Source: | Dicastery for Evangelization |
Date: | May 9, 2023 |
Summary: | One of the highlights of the press conference on May 9 was the presentation of the Calendar of the Holy Year. It will be updated as the Jubilee year approaches. |
Heading: | Official Logo of Jubilee unveiled |
Source: | Dicastery for Evangelization |
Date: | June 28, 2022 |
Summary: | The official Logo of the 2025 Jubilee was unveiled. |
Heading: | Pope urges a prayerful preparation for 2025 Jubilee |
Source: | Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization |
Date: | February 11, 2022 |
Summary: | In a letter to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Pope Francis outlined preparations for the Jubilee of 2025. One specifc recommendation was: “I would greatly desire that we devote 2024, the year preceding the Jubilee event, to a great ‘symphony’ of prayer.” |
Heading: | Jubilee Year motto: “Pilgrims of Hope” |
Source: | Vatican News Service |
Date: | January 13, 2022 |
Summary: | In an audience of January 3, Pope Francis approved the theme of Jubilee Year of 2025: “Pilgrims of Hope”. |
Heading: | Book of Exodus as paradigm for the Jubilee |
Source: | Holy See Press Office Press Bulletin |
Date: | March 7, 2019 |
Summary: | In a meditation with the parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Francis proposed the Book of Exodus as a paradigm for the Jubilee of the Year 2025. |
The first Ordinary Jubilee was celebrated in Rome in 1300 A.D. For a time, they were celebrated every 50 years (1350, 1400, etc.). Beginning in 1425, they were held every 25 years. The last one was the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. Many traditions have evolved around the celebration of the Jubilee.
There have also been Extraordinary Jubilees. Here is a list of the most recent:
For additional details, see the article “What is a Holy Year?” on the Vatican website.