The Jubilee Year 2025 – a Holy Year of Hope: On Christmas Eve, 2024, Pope Francis, like Pope John Paul II in 1999, will open the Holy Door to begin a Jubilee Year in 2025. It will be an ordinary holy year — in accordance with the tradition of the Church to celebrate such a year every 25 years, to give every generation a chance to experience that special time of grace and mercy in their life. The Holy Father Francis wants the coming Jubilee Year 2025 to be lived as a “year of hope,” very symbolic in times when the world’s wars seem to be unending and multiplying.

In recognition of the start of the Jubilee Year a special mass will be held here in Thunder Bay at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on December 29, 2024 at the 10:30 a.m. Mass. All are welcome to attend.