2025 Jubilee of Hope

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee Year – “The Jubilee of Hope”. As has happened in centuries past, Jubilee Years have served as holy times to pause, pray, seek the Lord’s pardon, and praise him for his merciful grace.  

The theme for this Jubilee is “Pilgrims of Hope”. As Archbishop Vigneron wrote in his letter on this year’s Jubilee, “…hope allows us to ‘keep our eyes fixed on Jesus’ (Heb 12:2). The Scriptures envision hope as ‘an anchor for our soul’ (Heb 6:19) by which we ‘hold fast’ to the promise of eternal life ‘that lies before us’ (Heb 6:18)”. In choosing the theme of hope for the jubilee year, Pope Francis reminds the Church in the words of St. Paul that “hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts” (Rom 5:5). 

During the Jubilee Year 2025, you can obtain a plenary indulgence, that is, complete remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, by making a pilgrimage to one of the jubilee sites designated throughout the archdiocese. Even without a Holy Door to pass through in Detroit, Archbishop Vigneron has designated several pilgrimage sites throughout the archdiocese. Here you can pray the official prayer for Jubilee Year 2025, unite yourself spiritually with all who will journey as pilgrims to Rome, and obtain an indulgence—freeing you from the temporal punishment caused by sin.  

In the Archdiocese of Detroit, Archbishop Vigneron encourages the faithful to embrace the invitation to become true pilgrims of hope, both spiritually and physically. Catholics are encouraged to go to (or return to), the sacrament of reconciliation, “one of the greatest acts of hope a Catholic can make… entrusting yourself fully to God’s divine mercy. God is always ready to forgive.”  

“The coming Jubilee will thus be a Holy Year marked by the hope that does not fade, our hope in God… May the witness of believers be for our world a leaven of authentic hope, a harbinger of new heavens and a new earth (cf. 2 Pet 3:13), where men and women will dwell in justice and harmony, in joyful expectation of the fulfillment of the Lord’s promises”.