(ZENIT News / Rome, 05.10.2023).- In 2025 the Catholic Church will celebrate the Ordinary Jubilee that takes place every 25 years. John Paul II was the last Pope that headed one of them. On the occasion of that Jubilee, different human groups come on pilgrimage to Rome for that Holy Year. The Organizing Committee of the 2025 Ordinary Jubilee has published the dates for the most significant events in which a very high number of pilgrims is foreseen. The Italian press talks of up to 35 million pilgrims in 2025. Suggested during a press conference to present the Jubilee was that it might be a low number, given what has been seen in Rome this year.
Here are the dates:
December 2024
Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica (date to be defined)
January 2025
24 – Communicators
February 2025
8-9 – Armed Forces, Police and Security Corps
15-18 – Artists
21-23 – Permanent Deacons
March 2025
8-9 -Volunteers
28-24 – Hours for the Lord
29-30 – Missionaries of Mercy
April 2025
5-6 – The sick and world of health
25-27 – Confirmation candidates
28-29 – People with disabilities
May 2025
1-4 – Workers
4-5 – Businessmen
10-11 – Music bands
16-18 – Confraternities
24-25 Those celebrating their First Communion
30 – Families
June 2025
1 – Families
7-8 – Movements, Associations and New Communities
9 – Roman Curia
14-15 – Sport
21-22 – Government leaders
23-24 – Seminarians
25 – Bishops
26-27 – Priests
28 – Oriental Churches
July 2025
13 – Prisoners
28 – Young people
August 2025
1-3 – Young people
September 2025
14-15 – Consolation
20-21 – Workers for Justice
26-28 – Catechists
October 2025
4-5 – Grandparents
8-9 – Consecrated life
11-12 – Marian Spirituality
18-19 – Missionary world
28-31 – Educational world
November
15-16 – Socially excluded people
21-23 – Choirs and chorales
December
Closing of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica date to be defined
