Jubilee 2025
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LIVESTREAM OF SOLEMN MASS - Dec 29, 11 amMost Reverend Nelson J. Pérez, Archbishop of Philadelphia, will celebrate the opening of the Jubilee Year with Mass at the Cathedral. That celebration of the holy Eucharist will mark the culmination of a pilgrimage of families traveling from throughout the Philadelphia region to the Cathedral.
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph: Archdiocesan Opening of the Holy Year
11:00AM Solemn Mass
Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia\
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Philadelphia's Jubilee Events
Important Dates in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
- Sunday, December 29, 2024, Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph: Archdiocesan Opening of the Holy Year, 11:00AM Solemn Mass, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
- January 1, 2025: Midnight Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
- April 23-29, 2025, Jubilee Pilgrimage for the Canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis with Archbishop Pérez and Fr. Stephen DeLacy • Click here for the flyer
- July 26-August 4, 2025: Archdiocesan Pilgrimage for Young Adults for the Jubilee of Youth in Rome
- September 7-16, 2025, Miracles of the Eucharist Pilgrimage to Italy with Fr. Dennis Gill
- Sunday, December 28, 2025, Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph: Archdiocesan Closing of the Holy Year, 11:00AM Solemn Mass, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
Pilgrimages
- July 26-August 4, 2025: Archdiocesan Pilgrimage for Young Adults for the Jubilee of Youth in Rome
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So...what exactly is a Jubilee Year?
A jubilee year, also known as a “holy year,” is a special year in the life of the church currently celebrated every 25 years.
The most recent ordinary jubilee was in 2000, with Pope Francis calling for an Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in 2015-2016. Jubilee years have been held on regular intervals in the Catholic church since 1300, but they trace their roots to the Jewish tradition of marking a jubilee year every 50 years.
According to the Vatican website for the jubilee, these years in Jewish history were “intended to be marked as a time to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation, and involved the forgiveness of debts, the return of misappropriated land, and a fallow period for the fields.”
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Vatican Jubilee Info
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USCCB Website
Information provided by the Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Pilgrimmage Sites
NATIONAL SHRINES
- St. John Neumann at St. Peter Church, Philadelphia
- Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown
- St. Rita, Philadelphia
DIOCESAN SHRINES
- St. Anne in St. Anne (upper) Church, Philadelphia
- Bl. Carlo Acutis at Malvern Retreat House, Malvern
- St. Gianna Beretta Molla at Nativity of Our Lord Church, Warminster
- St. Jude at St. Jude Church, Chalfont
- St. Katharine Drexel at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
- Miraculous Medal Basilica, Philadelphia
- Padre Pio at St. Bede Church, Holland
Information on the Jubilee Indulgence and the times for Confessions at these Shrines is coming soon.
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Holy Doors
Jubilee 2025 opens Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024 at 7 p.m., with the rite of the opening of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican immediately before Pope Francis celebrates midnight Mass. Holy Doors will also be opened at Rome’s three other major basilicas:
St. John Lateran on Dec. 29,
St. Mary Major on Jan. 1, and
St. Paul’s Outside the Walls on Jan. 5.
A Holy Door will also be opened Dec. 26 at Rebibbia Prison, a Roman prison Pope Francis has visited twice before to celebrate Mass and wash inmates’ feet on Holy Thursday.
The doors represent the passage to salvation Jesus opened to humanity. In 1423, Pope Martin V opened the Holy Door in the Basilica of St. John Lateran — the Diocese of Rome’s cathedral — for the first time for a jubilee. For the Holy Year of 1500, Pope Alexander VI opened Holy Doors at Rome’s four main basilicas. At the end of a holy year, the Holy Doors are formally closed and then bricked over by masons.
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Jubilee ThemeThe theme of the Holy Year is “Pilgrims of Hope.” The papal bull, issued May 9, that introduced the coming Jubilee Year is titled “Spes Non Confundit,” or “Hope does not disappoint,” drawn from Romans 5:5. “Everyone knows what it is to hope,” Pope Francis wrote. “In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring.
“Even so, uncertainty about the future may at times give rise to conflicting feelings, ranging from confident trust to apprehensiveness, from serenity to anxiety, from firm conviction to hesitation and doubt,” he continued. “Often we come across people who are discouraged, pessimistic and cynical about the future, as if nothing could possibly bring them happiness. For all of us, may the Jubilee be an opportunity to be renewed in hope. God’s word helps us find reasons for that hope.”
Pope Francis also hopes the year draws Catholics toward patience, which he described in “Spes Non Confundit” as a “virtue closely linked to hope,” yet can feel elusive in “our fast-paced world, we are used to wanting everything now.”
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Jubilee 2025 Introduction
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Jubilee Prep and Participation
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