When is the Jubilee?
The Jubilee Year will run from the opening of the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, on Tuesday 24 December 2024 to the Feast of Epiphany 2026.
Archbishop Bernard is set to celebrate Mass for the Solemn Opening of the Year, at St Chad’s Cathedral on Sunday 29 December 2024.
What is a Jubilee?
The Jubilee Years, also known as Holy Years, started in 1300AD and recall the great jubilee of Israel: a time for land to be rested and debts to be cancelled, when God called people to be reconciled with one another and with Him. The Church now holds a Jubilee Year every 25 years, although the next will be 2033 – the anniversary of Christ’s death and resurrection and the decent of the Holy Spirit.
These Years, the Church explains, are years “of reconciliation between adversaries, of conversion and receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, ‘…and consequently of solidarity, hope, justice, commitment to serve God with joy and in peace with our brothers and sisters’”
Indulgence During the Jubilee Year
To help us to respond to this high calling during the Year, a plenary indulgence can be gained not only by making a pilgrimage to a Jubilee church, but by devotedly performing one of the acts prescribed by the Church.
Jubilee Churches in our Archdiocese
The following Jubilee churches and sites have been chosen by His Grace as particular places of pilgrimage, and for the granting of the indulgence:
St Chad’s Cathedral – Shrine of St Chad
St Anne’s Church, Caversham – Shrine of Our Lady of Caversham
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hednesford – Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
St Michael’s Church, Penn, Wolverhampton – Shrine of Blessed Carlo Acutis
The Immaculate Conception & St Egwin Church – Shrine of Our Lady of Evesham
Harvington Hall, near Kidderminster
Bl. Dominic Barberi Church & St John Henry Newman College, Littlemore, Oxford
For more information, visit our Diocesan Website