2025 will mark 60 years since the second Vatican Council, or Vatican II. Following a Year of Prayer in 2024, celebrations will now begin. The theme is Pilgrims of Hope.
An ordinary jubilee happens in the church every 25 years – the last one was in the year 2000. Jubilee years date back to the 1300s, and traditionally, it is a year that sees the remission of sins, debts and universal pardon.
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The first of our three Jubilee Pilgrimage Walks will take place on Saturday 17 May. This will be a circular walk of 5 miles based around the Jubilee Church of St Anne and Blessed Dominic in St Helens. The walk will begin 10:00 from the church car park (WA9 3ZD) and will end with a short procession through the grounds at 11:50. Those who do not feel able to complete the 5-mile walk may join us for the procession. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 12:00 and there will be an opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and visit to the Shrine of Blessed Pastoral Development Department: St Margaret Clitherow Centre, Croxteth Drive, Liverpool, L17 1AA T: 0151 522 1040 pd@rcaol.org.uk Subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/66a35fdcea58/pd-bulletin Dominic Barberi. Refreshments will also be available after Mass in the Parish Centre. To allow us to plan accordingly please sign up for the walk using the following link:
St Anne & Blessed Dominic, St Helens
Monastery Road
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We come together as pilgrims of hope, as we take on the annual Pentecost walk between our city's two Cathedral's. All are welcome to attend.
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
Mount Pleasant
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St Oswald & St Edmund Arrowsmith, Ashton-in-Makerfield
Liverpool Road
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Our Pastoral Development Department created a parish pack containing helpful resources and information for the Jubilee Year. You can find it in Word or PDF format.
Click here to read Archbishop Malcolm’s pastoral letter at the beginning of the Jubilee (link)
The following places of worship have been named as designated pilgrimage churches (where the faithful, on making a pilgrimage to these churches, can obtain a plenary indulgence) by Archbishop Malcolm.
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
St Mary of the Isle, Isle of Man
St Anne and Blessed Dominic, St Helens
St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Aston and Makerfield
St Mary’s, Chorley
St Mary’s Shrine, Warrington
St Mary’s Public Oratory, Aughton
If you are visiting any of these churches during the Jubilee, please download our pilgrim passport to find out more about the churches and track your journey.
We Dare to Hope is a five-week Lenten resource on Christian Hope and includes a foreword by Bishop David Oakley. The resource, to use during the Jubilee Year, has been developed by the Bishops’ Conference.
You can find out more about the Jubilee icon here:
The Jubilee Companion Booklet 2025 is published in a collaboration with the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. The booklet helps pilgrims ponder and pray, focusing on the great themes of the Holy Year.
The Pilgrim Ways website outlines pilgrimages you can make in the Archdiocese of Liverpool and other diocese across England and Wales.You may have heard that they are organising a national walking pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year – there are four walking routes which are designed to look like the sign of cross so pilgrims will be blessing the nation.All are welcome to take part, more information can be found below.
Throughout the Jubilee year, there are events happening in Rome.
Tradition dictates that each Jubilee is proclaimed through the publication of a Papal (or Pontifical) ‘Bull of Indiction’. By ‘Bull’ is meant an official document, generally written in Latin, bearing the seal of the Pope, the shape of which gives its name to the document itself.
In the past the seal was usually made of lead and bore, on the front, the image of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, founders of the Church of Rome, and, on the back, the name of the current Pontiff. Later an ink stamp replaced the metal seal, which, however, continued to be used for more important documents.
This year’s Jubilee logo is rich with imagery that can help you to understand the meaning of the
Jubilee.
Father Simon Gore explains: “The logo shows a group of people travelling together, reminding young people that they’re never alone on their journey of faith and will always have support in their faith communities.
There's also the symbol of the wave, a reminder of the potential difficulties of being a follower of Christ in the modern age. But most importantly, there's the anchor – the anchor of hope – to show that no matter the difficulty, we can always find hope and comfort in our faith.”
