The 2025 Jubilee will officially open on December 24, 2024, at 7pm with a Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. The rite of the Opening of the Holy Door will follow.
“Jubilee” is the name given to a particular year; the name comes from the instrument used to mark its launch. The Vatican celebrates the Jubilee every 25 years and this year’s theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”. All Catholic Education partners attended a Retreat at the Mount Carmel Retreat Center in Niagara Falls in Preparation for the Jubilee for Catholic Education to be celebrated next year. The Catholic education community is already preparing with the Week for Catholic Education 2025 taking on the theme of the Jubilee Year – Pilgrims of Hope.
Bishop Bergie, Bishop of St. Catharines, President of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario and former Chair of the Education Commission of the ACBO, led everyone in a retreat to consider the meaning of the Jubilee and to help to reflect, as leaders and partners in Catholic Education, how we may best participate in this celebration and model what it is to be “Pilgrims of Hope”.
There is information and many events scheduled on the website https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en.html that you can see and follow along in the next year to come!
