On May 9, 2024, Pope Francis released the Bull of Indiction Spes non confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”) announcing the Ordinary Jubilee Year of 2025. The Jubilee will begin in Rome on the vigil of the Lord’s Nativity, December 24, 2024, and in local dioceses on Holy Family Sunday, December 29. It will conclude in local dioceses the following Holy Family Sunday, December 28, 2025, and in Rome on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, January 6, 2026

Visit the Vatican Jubilee 2025 Website: Iubilaeum 2025

Visit the USCCB Jubilee 2025 Website: Jubilee 2025

Pope Francis stated in his February 2022 letter announcing the Jubilee 2025: "We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire..." 

The Jubilee Calendar

The Jubilee celebrations for various audiences will take place from January to December 2025. The overview calendar and tentative schedule for the Jubilee celebrations in Rome can be found in a separate information sheet, available at this link and this link.

The Jubilee Prayer

The official prayer can be found in sixteen languages, other languages are being added.

Here is the prayer in English and Spanish.

Mass for the Year

On May 13, 2024, the Holy See's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments confirmed the text of the "Mass for the Holy Year" in multiple languages. The USCCB provides them in English, Spanish, and Latin. These may be used during the Jubilee Year 2025, from December 24, 2024 to January 6, 2026.

Mass for the Holy Year (English)    -    Misa para el Año Santo (Spanish)    -    Missa pro Anno Sancto (Latin)

Hymn for the Year

There is a hymn written to be used throughout the year, especially when the Mass Propers are used. The Original text is by Pierangelo Sequeri.

Oftentimes, while walking along, a song will come to mind which really seems to express how we are feeling. This is also true for the life of faith, which is a pilgrimage toward the light of the Risen Lord. The Sacred Scriptures are steeped in song, and the Psalms are a striking example: the prayers of the people of Israel were written to be sung, and it was in song that the most human events were presented before the Lord. The tradition of the Church has continued this, making music and song one of the lungs of its liturgy. The Jubilee, which in itself is expressed as an event of people on pilgrimage to the Holy Door, also uses song as one of the ways of expressing its motto, “Pilgrims of Hope”.

Many themes of the Holy Year are woven into the text written by Pierangelo Sequeri and set to music by Francesco Meneghello. First of all, the motto, “Pilgrims of Hope”, is best echoed biblically in some pages from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 9 and Isaiah 60). The themes of creation, fraternity, God's tenderness and hope in our destination resonate in a language, which although not "technically" theological, is in substance and in the allusions, so that it rings eloquently in the ears of our time.

With each step of their daily pilgrimage believers trustingly rely on the source of Life. The song that arises spontaneously during the journey (cf. Augustine, Discourses, 256) is directed to God. It is a song charged with the hope of being freed and supported. It is a song imbued with the hope that it will reach the ears of the One from whom all things flow. It is God who as an ever-living flame keeps hope burning and energizes the steps of the people as they journey.

The prophet Isaiah repeatedly sees the family of men and women, sons and daughters, returning from their scattered ways, gathered in the light of God's Word: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light” (Is 9:2). The light is that of the Son who became Man, Jesus, who by His own Word gathers every people and nation. It is the living flame of Jesus that stirs the step: “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you” (Is 60:1).

Christian hope is dynamic and enlightens the pilgrimage of life, revealing the faces of brothers and sisters, companions on the journey. It is not a roaming of lone wolves, but a journey of people, confident and joyful, moving toward a New destination. The breath of the Spirit of life does not fail to brighten the dawn of the future that is about to arise. The heavenly Father patiently and tenderly watches over the pilgrimage of his children and opens wide the Way for them, pointing to Jesus, his Son, who becomes a pathway for everyone.

English

Sheet Music​ - Text

Recording: Recording performed by the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC - Peter Latona, Director

Spanish

Sheet Music​ - Text​

Recording: Himno del Jubileo adaptado por la Conferencia Episcopal Española, interpretado por el Orfeón «Terra a Nosa» de Santiago de Compostela y dirigido por Luis Martínez.