Jubilee 2025 in the Archdiocese of Edmonton

Our goal in the Archdiocese of Edmonton is to make Jubilee 2025 “a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the ‘door’ (cf. Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere and to all as ‘our hope’” (1 Tim 1:1). (Bull of Indiction, 1)

Jubilee 2025 offers a unique opportunity to pursue our three Archdiocesan Pastoral Priorities of Worship, Witness and Service within the context of a major world-wide Catholic event. For that reason, we have categorized the events, opportunities, resources and for Jubilee 2025 according to the Pastoral Priorities.

Click on the links below to learn more:

Formation for Eucharistic Worship Forming Confident Witnesses Service to Marriage and Families Resources

A Jubilee, or Holy Year, is a great religious event in the life of the Church. It is a year of forgiveness, reconciliation, conversion, and re-commitment to our mission to serve God through the Church.

A Jubilee is called “ordinary” if it falls after a set period of years. In the Catholic Church, a jubilee occurs every 25 years. It is “extraordinary” when it is proclaimed for some outstanding event, such as the Year of Mercy in 2016.

By tradition, a Jubilee is proclaimed through the publication of a Papal or Pontifical Bull of Indiction. The Papal Bull of Indiction for Jubilee 2025 was published May 9, 2025: Bull of Indiction (EN) and Bulle d’Indiction (FR)

The opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on December 29, 2024 will mark the beginning of the Jubilee and symbolizes the passage that every Christian must make from sin to grace. In the Archdiocese of Edmonton, we will mark this significant event with a Solemn Opening Mass at St. Joseph’s Basilica.

“During the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025…all the faithful…will be able to obtain from the treasury of the Church a plenary indulgence, with remission and forgiveness of all their sins…” (Decree on the Granting of Indulgence)

In the Archdiocese of Edmonton, pilgrims will be able to receive a Jubilee 2025 indulgence by participating in any of the three Annual Pilgrimages:

The Archdiocese of Edmonton, in partnership with Newman Theological College, will be leading a group of young Catholics to the Jubilee of Youth, July 28-August 3. Click here for more information.

Visit our Pilgrimages page for information on Jubilee 2025 pilgrimages and other pilgrimages offered by local and national tour providers.

Visit the CCCB Jubilee 2025 website

Visit the Vatican Jubilee 2025 website

  • Jubilee Hymn
  • Mass for the Solemn Opening of the Jubilee Year
  • Day of Confessions – Friday, March 28, 2025
  • Pilgrimage with the Saints – all deaneries

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 Toolkit for Catholic Schools

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
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

Pope Francis

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