Pilgrims of Hope is the summed up words for the 2025 Jubilee year of the Church said by Archbishop Rino Fisichella in a video published by Vatican News on 13 January. This motto is approved by the Pope in meeting with the archbishop.
Preparations are ongoing in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee, a special year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church.
The 2025 Jubilee will be the Church’s first ordinary jubilee since St. John Paul II led The Great Jubilee of 2000. The Jubilee of Mercy opened by Pope Francis in 2015 was an extraordinary jubilee.
Archbishop Fisichella leads the Vatican dicastery entrusted with the event’s organization, the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.
“There is so much work to be done,” he said.
The 2025 Jubilee will include the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. Pilgrims who pass through the door – which is only opened during Jubilee years, ordinarily every 25 years or when a pope calls for an extraordinary Jubilee – can receive a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions.