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Jubilee 2025
Pilgrims of Hope
The theme of this Holy Year is Pilgrims of Hope.
Pope Francis will open the 2025 Jubilee Year at the Vatican on Christmas Eve; bishops around the world will do so in their cathedral churches one week later, on the Feast of the Holy Family. The 2025 Jubilee marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (325 AD), which declared the divinity of Christ. The Jubilee Year is an opportunity to grow closer to God by practicing the faith with greater vigor.
Jubilee 2025
Bishop Knestout will inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee Year with a Mass.
Opening of the Jubilee Year
Saturday | December 28
5 PM Mass
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
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Jubilee Prayer
Let us pray together as one Universal Church.
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. -