What is the Holy Year 2025?
On May 9, 2024, the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Pope Francis officially announced the Ordinary Jubilee Year of 2025 with the Bull of Indiction Spes non confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”). Explore this page to learn more about the Jubilee Year and for various resources including a calendar of events, plenary indulgence information, the official Jubilee Hymn and Prayer, and more! Click here to download the Jubilee 2025 calendar of major events.
Become a Pilgrim of Hope -
Visit the Holy Sites
Visiting these holy sites is one of several ways to receive a plenary indulgence this Holy Year.
Did you know a plenary indulgence removes all temporal punishment due to sin, whose guilt is forgiven? The plenary indulgence gained can either be for oneself or applied to the dead.
Make a Pious visit to an official Jubilee site
Bishop Burbidge has designated these eight churches as Holy Year sites:
The USCCB has designated the National Shrine as a Jubilee 2025 pilgrimage site.
Holy Year Tour Pilgrim Testimonies
Download the Official Jubilee 2025 App
This Holy Year, Bishop Burbidge is encouraging us to be mindful of the many signs of hope around us and to share that hope with others. By calling the Holy Year Hope Hotline you can share your story and the gift of hope with listeners throughout our diocese. Call (703) 778-9100 to leave a message that embodies the theme of “Pilgrims of Hope” this Holy Year.
Official Hymn
Official 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
of a new heaven and a new earth,
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.
