This year is a special Jubilee year. They happens every 25 years in the Catholic Church.

The 2025 Jubilee Year began on Christmas Eve 2024 and will conclude on 6th January 2026 (Epiphany).  For schools, the Jubilee launch day was on Friday 24th January 2025.

Pope Francis has called this Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. It’s an invitation to renew our hope;

We are invited to renew our hope and discover a vision that can "restore access to the fruits of the earth to everyone". We are also invited to rediscover the spirituality of God's creation in which we understand we are "Pilgrims on the Earth" rather than masters of the world, and to put our Catholic Social Teaching into action, through caring for our common home and supporting our sisters and brothers who are experiencing war, hunger or poverty.