Catholic events in 2025

• Jubilee of the World of Communications: January 24^th -26^th 2025. All those working in the world of communication are especially invited to this jubilee event (journalists, media professionals, managers and editors of newspapers, Boards of Directors, video makers, graphic designers, copywriters, PR staff, social media managers, audio and video technicians, typographers, IT experts etc.)

Pope’s Prayer for Communications

Lord, teach us to move beyond ourselves, and to set out in search of truth. Teach us to go out and see, teach us to listen, not to entertain prejudices or draw hasty conclusions. Teach us to go where no one else will go, to take the time needed to understand, to pay attention to the essentials, not to be distracted by the superfluous, to distinguish deceptive appearances from the truth. Grant us the grace to recognize your dwelling places in our world and the honesty needed to tell others what we have seen. Amen.

• Ascension of the Lord: The Ascension of the Lord is on Thursday, May 29, 2025. The Ascension of the Lord commemorates Jesus’ completion of his earthly mission and his exaltation as Lord and Christ. It also marks the beginning of the presence of the Body of Christ, the Church.
• Uganda Martyrs Day is celebrated annually on June 3rd to commemorate the 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity who were executed in the historical kingdom of Buganda between 1885 and 1887. The day is a public holiday in Uganda and is marked by a large pilgrimage to the Namugongo Catholic Martyrs Shrine in Kampala.The martyrs were executed on the orders of the Kabaka (King) Mwanga II of Buganda. The youngest martyr was Saint Kizito, who was killed by King Mwanga II in 1886. Charles Lwanga, a convert to the Catholic Church, was martyred on June 3, 1886 and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. The Basilica of the Uganda Martyrs at Namugongo was built in 1968 and has become a venue for massive pilgrimages. Pope Paul VI canonized the Uganda Martyrs and elevated them to sainthood on October 18, 1964. The Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine was built as a thanksgiving monument for the canonization.
• Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost Sunday is on June 8, 2025 and it commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks. This important event in the Christian faith is described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–31), the fifth book of the New Testament of the Bible.
• Laudato si’ 10^th Anniversary on June 15^th 2025. Laudato si’ is the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled “on care for our common home”. In it, the Pope criticizes consumerism and irresponsible economic development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take “swift and unified global action”.
• The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is on June 22, 2025. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is also known as the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, which translates from Latin to “Body of Christ.” This feast originated in France in the midthirteenth century and was extended to the whole Church by Pope Urban IV in 1264.
• Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers: This jubilee is on July 28–29, 2025. Being a missionary of hope means accepting Christ’s call to bring the Good News to every corner, especially in the digital world. It involves spreading the light of faith and the Gospel, transforming lives with messages of hope and love. The Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers is a milestone for online evangelization. On July 28 and 29, 2025, in Rome, we will unite our efforts to celebrate, train, and inspire those called to evangelize on digital platforms. This Jubilee is for all those who evangelize in the digital environment, sharing the message of the Gospel on social networks, blogs, channels, and apps. It’s an opportunity to exchange experiences and strengthen our common mission.
• Jubilee of Consolation: This jubilee is on September 15, 2025. All those who are experiencing a time of pain and affliction, due to illness, bereavement, violence or abuse, are especially invited to this jubilee event, together with their families and friends.
• Jubilee of Justice: This jubilee is on September 20, 2025. All those involved in the world of the law and secular, canonical and ecclesiastical justice (judges, public prosecutors, magistrates, lawyers, legal practitioners, etc.) are especially invited to this jubilee event, together with their families.
• Jubilee of Catechists: This jubilee is on September 26–28, 2025. The Jubilee of Catechists is an opportunity to recognise the important role that catechists play in passing on the faith and to express our gratitude for their efforts. The role played by catechists is one specific form of service among others within the Christian community. Catechists are called first to be expert in the pastoral service of transmitting the faith as it develops through its different stages from the initial proclamation of the kerygma to the instruction that presents our new life in Christ and prepares for the sacraments of Christian initiation, and then to the ongoing formation that can allow each person to give an accounting of the hope within them (cf. 1 Pet 3:15). At the same time, every catechist must be a witness to the faith, a teacher and mystagogue, a companion and pedagogue, who teaches for the Church. Only through prayer, study, and direct participation in the life of the community can they grow in this identity and the integrity and responsibility that it entails (cf. Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Directory for Catechesis, 113).

Jubilee 2025 Official Logo

• Jubilee of Migrants and the Missions: This jubilee is on October 4–5, 2025. All lay and religious missionaries, pastoral workers, Fidei Donum missionaries and missionary organizations are specially invited to this Jubilee event.
• Jubilee of Consecrated Life: This jubilee is on October 8–9, 2025. This special Jubilee Year event is born out of the desire of consecrated men and women to reflect on the urgent need for peace and to answer the call to be witnesses and prophets of hope and peace.
• Jubilee of Marian Spirituality: This jubilee is on October 11–12, 2025. All members of the movements, confraternities and various Marian prayer groups are particularly invited to this jubilee event. Devotion to Mary seeks not only to think of Our Lady and to honor her for her unique place in salvation history, but to imitate her virtues and to follow her example of conformity to Christ. The Church’s spirituality is a Marian spirituality because it imitates Mary’s attitudes. The Church strives to form her relationship with God, with the Father through Christ in the Holy Spirit, after the style of the Blessed Virgin.
• Jubilee of the World of Education: This jubilee is on October 31–November 2, 2025. For the Jubilee of the World of Education, giving thanks for the teachers, mentors, administrators, and support staff who dedicate themselves to the growth and development of students. We honour their commitment to fostering knowledge, curiosity, and a love of learning in future generations. Education is a cornerstone of hope and opportunity, and those who work within it inspire minds, shape character, and empower young people to fulfil their potential.
• Jubilee of the Poor: This jubilee is on November 16, 2025. The Jubilee of the Poor in 2025 is a year of prayer, conversion, and solidarity with the poor. The Jubilee of the Poor on November 16, 2025 at the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
• Jubilee of Choirs: This jubilee is on November 22–23, 2025. The Jubilee for Choirs will take place, aimed at those involved in music for liturgical celebrations in dioceses and parishes, along with their family and friends who also wish to participate.
• Jubilee of Prisoners: This jubilee is on December 14, 2025. Pope Francis dedicated the 2025 Jubilee to hope and made clear that prisoners would be an important part of it: The final grand event of the Jubilee is a special Mass for inmates at St. Peter’s on December 14, 2025.
• Closing of the Holy Doors Around the World: This event is on December 28, 2025. The Holy Doors of the world will close on different dates in 2025 and 2026 to mark the end of the Jubilee Year. St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: These three Holy Doors will close on December 28, 2025. St. Peter’s Basilica: The Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica will close on January 6, 2026, the feast of the Epiphany. This will mark the formal end of the Jubilee Year in Rome.

The 2025 Jubilee will be centered on the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.” As His Holiness Pope Francis so beautifully expressed it: “We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision.”