Jubilee Year of 2025
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Pilgrims of Hope
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.
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News
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. History of Jubilees
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:
- Pope Pius XI proclaimed the year 1933 an Extraordinary Jubilee to mark the 1,900th anniversary of Redemption.
- Pope St. John Paul II proclaimed the year 1983 an Extraordinary Jubilee to mark the 1,950th anniversary of Redemption.
- Pope Francis proclaimed the year 2016 an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.
For additional details, see the article “What is a Holy Year?” on the Vatican website.