2025 JUBILEE YEAR
2025 JUBILEE YEAR
PILGRIMS OF HOPE JUBILEE IN OUR DIOCESE
According to the Old Testament, a jubilee was to occur every fifty years as a special time of mercy. The Church celebrates a jubilee, or holy year, at least every 25 years as a time of prayer, pilgrimage, and pardon. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has proclaimed 2025 a Jubilee Year with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”
On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Jubilee at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Locally, on Sunday, December 29, 2024, the Feast of the Holy Family, bishop Scott Bullock opened the Jubilee in the diocese of Rapid City during the 10:30AM Mass here at the Cathedral. Faithful from all over the diocese were in attendance for this historic moment. Missed the Mass? Watch it online.
Throughout this Holy Year, a plenary indulgence in the usual form of the Church will be granted to all the faithful who are truly repentant and confess their sins sacramentally, receive Holy Communion, pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, and go on a pilgrimage or pious visit to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
With Pope Francis, we pray that this Jubilee Year will be “a moment of genuine encounter with the Lord Jesus…whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere, and to all as our hope.” The jubilee runs to January 6, 2026, the Feast Day of Epiphany, with the Closing of the Holy Door.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE JUBILEE YEAR
2025 is the Jubilee Holy Year, the 2,025th anniversary of the Incarnation of our Lord, an "event of great spiritual, ecclesial, and social significance in the life of the Church." The concept of "Jubilee" has its origins in the Book of Leviticus (chapter 25) as a special year of reconciliation, pilgrimage, and coming home. Pope Francis has designated the 2025 Holy Year as a time to renew ourselves as "Pilgrims of Hope."
The pages linked below can offer Catholics resources and ideas for celebrating the 2025 Jubilee locally or by making a special pilgrimage to Rome. These sites are regularly updated with the latest news, so feel free to check back regularly.
