JUBILEE 2025
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During the Jubilee Year 2025, Pope Francis is calling on all the faithful to become Pilgrims of Hope. The Jubilee Year begins when Pope Francis opens the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s Basilica on December 24, 2024. The doors will remain open until the end of the Jubilee Year on January 6, 2026. During the Jubilee, millions of pilgrims are expected to travel to Rome to walk through the Holy Doors and participate in Jubilee events.
Those unable to travel to Rome can participate in the Jubilee locally by making a pilgrimage to St. James Cathedral in Seattle or to one of the other designated pilgrimage sites. See below
Opening Mass of the Jubilee Year
On Sunday, December 29, at 10 am, in union with bishops throughout the world, Archbishop Etienne will open the local observance of the Jubilee Year 2025 at St. James Cathedral in Seattle.
The liturgy will include a procession and a special proclamation of the Jubilee.
What is a Jubilee Year?
A Jubilee is a special year of prayer. Jubilees are times for forgiveness, reconciliation, and pilgrimage and are a part of the Catholic tradition. Jubilees ordinarily take place every twenty-five years.
The theme of Jubilee 2025 is Pilgrims of Hope, and the faithful are encouraged to participate, either by going on pilgrimage to Rome or in your local archdiocese. Scroll down to find the five local pilgrimage sites in the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Jubilee Prayer in English
Father in heaven,
may the faith you have gifted us in
your son Jesus Christ, our brother,
and the flame of charity
kindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
reawaken in us, the blessed hope
for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us
into diligent cultivators of the evangelical seeds
that make humanity and the cosmos rise
unto the confident expectation
of the new heavens and the new earth,
when with the powers of Evil overcome,
your glory shall be manifested eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee
reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
the yearning for heavenly treasures
and pour over all the earth
the joy and peace
of our Redeemer.
To you God blessed in eternity,
be praise and glory for ever and ever.
Amen.Source: The Vatican
Jubilee Pilgrimage Sites
Calendar of Events (click here)