Holy Family Catholic Primary School
JUBILEE YEAR OF HOPE
The Jubilee Year
Pope Francis has announced that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee – an event that happens every 25 years.
The 2025 Jubilee will begin in Advent 2024 and will run until the Feast of the Epiphany in 2026.
Although this is a global celebration, Pope Francis invites dioceses throughout the world to mark the Jubilee in their own unique way, and we look forward to sharing a whole range of different activities, events, and resources with you during the Jubilee year.
Here at Holy Family School we have planned events to celebrate the Jubilee Year and to journey through this time together in joy and hope.
Our Jubilee Year Events Timeline
Here are just some of the Jubilee Celebrations we have planned for this special year - please check back. Some of the below are still in discussion:
December 2024: Our Advent Service will start the year with Hope
January 2025: Our Launch Day will be 24th January! & Jubilee Mass 30th January led by Y6
February 2025:
March 2025: Bible Week with Prayer Partners
April 2025: Pilgrimages (As part of our termly 'Around the World' days, each class will visit a different place of pilgrimage to investigate.
May 2025: The month of Mary
June 2025: Pilgrimage from school to the church.
July 2025 - A Jubilee mass of Hope led by Year 5
September 2025 – Revisiting our Mission Statement
Open doors, open hearts
After walking through the Holy Door himself, the Pope presided over Mass in the church. In his homily, Pope Francis reflected on the historic reason for his visit, describing it as “a beautiful gesture of opening.” But more than simply opening doors, the Pope encouraged the prisoners present to open their hearts. Brotherhood, he said, is "open hearts."
Watch as Pope Francis opens the Holy Door below: