Bishops around the world marked the start of the 2025 Jubilee Year on December 29th with Masses emphasizing hope, the central theme of the Holy Year. Celebrations took place in cathedrals and co-cathedrals, with Cardinal Pizzaballa in Nazareth and Cardinal Nichols in London leading prominent services.
Bishops worldwide celebrated the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year on December 29 with Masses in their cathedrals and co-cathedrals focused on hope, the central theme of the Holy Year which Pope Francis inaugurated on Christmas Eve with the solemn opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.In the Holy Land Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa presided over the celebratory Mass for his diocese at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
Referring to the Jubilee theme Cardinal Pizzaballa acknowledged that it is very difficult to speak of hope, “when everything around us speaks of war, violence, poverty, and hardship." At the same time, he emphasized, that"hope needs faith” and, as Saint Paul teaches us also ”requires patience”. “Patience without hope is mere resignation “ and “hope without patience is a delusion” , he said.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols’s reflection during the opening Mass he presided over at Westminster Cathedral in London. Jubilees, he said in the homily “are occasions for the Church to undergo a 'reset'. And this Holy Year invites us to deepen and renew the place of hope in our lives.”
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