Jubilee Year of Hope 2025

In the Catholic Church, a Jubilee or Holy Year is a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.

The 2025 Jubilee Year began on Christmas Eve 2024 and concludes on 6th January 2026.  For schools, the Jubilee launch day is on Friday 24th January 2025.

The theme for the Jubilee is Pilgrims of Hope.  Pope Francis has invited Catholics to renew our hope and discover a vision that can ‘restore access to the fruits of the earth to everyone’. We are also invited to rediscover a spirituality of God’s creation in which we understand ourselves as ‘pilgrims on the earth’ rather that masters of the world.

So please, prepare well, travel well during the Holy year and may God bless you always.       Cardinal Vincent Nicholls

Click here to watch the Jubilee launch video for schools: