Jubilee Year of Hope


December 29, 2024 – December 28, 2025

What is the Year of Hope?

Every 25 years, the Catholic Church celebrates a Jubilee Year, a moment of great significance in the life of the Church. Pope Francis has declared the theme of this Jubilee to be “Pilgrims of Hope.” Every Jubilee involves the Sacraments, pilgrimages, indulgences, and more!

WHERE TO GO

Pilgrimage Sites in the Diocese of Gallup

WHAT TO DO

How to Participate in the Jubilee Year of Hope

Throughout every Jubilee, obtaining an indulgence is of great importance. The Catechism teaches us that “[a]n indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church.” Methods of obtaining an indulgence include:

Visiting a Jubilee Site

Works of Mercy

Souls in Purgatory

FROM THE BISHOP

Announcing the Jubilee Year of Hope in the Diocese of Gallup.

Jubilee Prayer

Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your Son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled 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 tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel. May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth, when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally. 

May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven. May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth. To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever. Amen.

More from the vatican

The 2025 Jubilee will officially open on December 24, 2024, at 7pm with a Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. The rite of the Opening of the Holy Door will follow.