Jubilee of Hope 2025
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Información en español | Visit the Vatican Jubilee 2025 Website: Iubilaeum 2025
In the Jubilee Year 2025, the 2,025th anniversary of the Incarnation of Our Lord, the Archdiocese has prepared for what Pope Francis called an “event of great spiritual, ecclesial and social significance in the life of the Church.”- In Galveston-Houston, Archbishop Joe S. Vásquez will celebrate a "Jubilee of Hope" Closing Mass on Sunday, Dec. 28 at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston.
Pope Francis said 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 Year offers the faithful opportunities to participate in various jubilee events at the Vatican and in the Archdiocese. The great tradition of opening the Holy Door began when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2024. Other holy doors were opened at the Rome basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls. During the Jubilee of the Holy See, Pope Leo XIV emphasized that the best way to serve the church stems from holiness and conformity to Christ. On June 9, carrying the wooden Jubilee cross, the pope led a procession of cardinals, bishops, priests and lay people into St. Peter's Square toward the basilica and through the Holy Door, then he celebrated Mass.
The two cathedrals in Galveston-Houston are pilgrimage sites for Catholics in and visiting the Archdiocese. For pilgrims who cannot travel to Rome, bishops around the world have designated at least their cathedrals or popular Catholic shrines as special places of prayer for Holy Year pilgrims, offering opportunities for reconciliation, indulgences and other events intended to strengthen and revive faith.
Note: Unlike the practice in the Year of Mercy, diocesan cathedrals are not designated with their own holy doors during the Jubilee Year. Still, they remain pilgrim sites for all in the Archdiocese.
Jubilee Plenary Indulgence
Special during the Jubilee Year, indulgences are available to the faithful. The indulgence, Pope Francis said, would be “a way of discovering the unlimited nature of God’s mercy.”
A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin.
- The conditions necessary for a Jubilee indulgence include:
- Being in a state of grace and disposed to receive the indulgence
- Having confessed one’s sins sacramentally
- Receiving Holy Communion
- Offering prayers for the Holy Father and his intentions
- If able, make a pilgrimage to a designated Jubilee pilgrim site, such as Houston’s Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart or St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston
Learn more about the norms for indulgences during the Jubilee Year, which include pilgrimage, penance and service
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Archdiocesan Pilgrim Sitesplaces of faith
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St. Mary Cathedral BasilicaGalveston island
2011 Church St., Galveston - Google Maps
409-762-9646 - Website
Part of Holy Family Parish of Galveston and Bolivar- Visit the historic Mother Church of Texas, one of just four basilicas in the state
Mass Times
Sunday - 12:30 p.m.
First Saturdays - 8 a.m.
Monday to Friday - 12:10 p.m.
Note: Unlike the practice in the Year of Mercy, diocesan cathedrals are not designated with their own holy doors during the Jubilee Year. Still, they remain pilgrim sites for all in the Archdiocese. -
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Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heartdowntown houston
1111 St. Joseph Pkwy., Houston - Google Maps
713-659-1561 - Website
Parking and Directions- Visit one of the newest and largest cathedrals in the southern United States
Regular Hours
Sunday - 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday - 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday/Thursday - 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday - 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday - 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Mass Times
Saturday - 5 p.m. (Vigil) English
Sunday - 7 a.m. English, 9 a.m. Vietnamese, 11 a.m. English, 1 p.m. Spanish, 5:30 p.m. English
Monday - 12:10 p.m. English
Tuesday - Thursday: 7 a.m., 12:10 p.m.
Friday - 12:10 p.m.
Confessions
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Monday/Friday - 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Tuesday to Thursday - 6:30 a.m. to 6:50 p.m., 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Saturday - 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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What is a Jubilee?
"Jubilee" is the name given to a particular year. A time to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another, and with all of Creation. To learn more, click here.
Resource Downloads for the Jubilee YearJubilees Throughout History
In the Catholic Church, the concept of Jubilee or 'Holy Year' was used to declare special years for forgiveness and reconciliation. The first Jubilee was declared by Pope Boniface VII on 22nd February 1300 (Feast of the Chair of St. Peter), to mark the beginning of that century. He later recommended it occurring every 100 years. Learn more here.The Jubilee Logo
To learn about the meaning of the logo for the 2025 Jubilee, click here.Jubilee 2025 Calendar
This 2025 calendar of events includes a one-page overview of the Holy Year moments followed by several pages of anticipated detailed schedules for each Jubilee celebration in Rome, which can be replicated or adapted at the discretion of each local community.Jubilee Prayer
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. - View entire prayer
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Latest News
- Oct. 30: Young adult pilgrimage to Galveston brings Jubilee to the beach
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- Oct. 1: Respect Life Month takes on new meaning during Jubilee Year, says bishop
- Sept. 29: US pilgrims at Jubilee of Catechists have private audience with pope
- Sept. 9: Young adults sent out as Pilgrims of Hope during the Jubilee Year
- June 10: Finding ourselves in the Jubilee story
- Aug. 1: Thousands visit Blessed Frassati’s remains in Rome for Jubilee of Youth
- Dec. 2024: Proclaiming Holy Year, pope says it is time to strengthen and share hope
- Dec. 2024: Vatican norms for Jubilee indulgence include pilgrimage, penance, service
Spes Non Confundit - Bula de Indicación
On Thursday, May 9, the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Pope Francis officially proclaimed the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025 with the public reading and delivery of Spes Non Confundit, the Bull of Indiction for the Holy Year, in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
Click here for a newsletter with some helpful information on the Bull.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.
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Jubilee Hymn
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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
Recording: Recording performed by the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC - Peter Latona, Director
Spanish
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.
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