Looking Toward the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope

The 2025 Jubilee of Hope will occur from Dec. 24, 2024, through Jan. 6, 2026. The faithful are invited to participate in this Holy Year and receive hope, grace, and renewal through the mercy of Jesus Christ.

by Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich

On Dec. 24, Pope Francis will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass and open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, officially beginning the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. As Pope Francis wrote in the Papal Bull of Indiction, the official document proclaiming the Jubilee, “Now the time has come for a new Jubilee, when once more the Holy …