Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope

Pope Francis formally inaugurated Jubilee Year 2025 when he opened the Holy Door to St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Christmas Eve 2024. He will close it Jan. 6, 2026, the Feast of Epiphany. 

Pope Francis has asked bishops around the world to celebrate the Jubilee in their dioceses from Dec. 29, 2024, to Dec. 28, 2025.

Bishop Edward M. Lohse celebrated the opening of Holy Year 2025 in the Diocese of Steubenville with Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption, Marietta, Dec. 29, 2024. 

Bishop Lohse announced four diocesan pilgrimage sites for the Jubilee Year: 

• Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption, Marietta; 

• St. Benedict Church, Cambridge; 

• St. Joseph Church, Ironton; and 

• Father of Mercy Chapel (located at the Franciscan Sisters Third Order Regular of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother's motherhouse), Toronto.

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. May your grace transform us into diligent cultivators of the evangelical seeds that make humanity and the cosmos rise unto the confident expectation of the new heavens and the new earth, when with the powers of Evil overcome, your glory shall be manifested eternally. May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, the yearning for heavenly treasures and pour over all the earth the joy and peace of our Redeemer. To you God blessed in eternity, be praise and glory for ever and ever. Amen.