Jubilee of Hope 2025

The children in Dosbarth Gwynno Sant have been learning about the significance of the Jubilee of Hope 2025. In Miss Westgarth’s lesson, they worked in four collaborative groups to present ideas for individual and national and global wishes for hope. This has been displayed in our collective worship area by Miss Westgarth. In Mrs Houston’s class, the children have learnt about the significance of the Holy Doors and the Biblical events that are displayed as panels on the doors and as the Minie Vinnies we will be presenting this information to the Foundation Phase in the coming weeks, with the chair and vice chair taking responsibility for this delivery. Learning was led by Mrs Wheeler (DHT) in an assembly for the whole school to launch the sacred event.

Family information about the Jubilee of Hope 2025

The Vatican announced that, for the 2025 Jubilee year — the Jubilee of Hope — five “Holy Doors” will be opened, beginning on Christmas Eve, as Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Jubilee of Hope will take place from Dec. 24, 2024 — Christmas Eve — to Jan. 6, 2026, the Feast of the Epiphany. The first Holy Door will be opened by Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve this year to bring in the beginning of the Jubilee Year worldwide. This door will be the last one to be closed on the feast of the Epiphany in 2026, marking the end of the holy year. In the early centuries, the Holy Father would strike the brick wall enclosing the Holy Door with a silver hammer; then masons would continue to uncover the door that, at the end of each Holy Year, was sealed by a brick wall as the Pope closed the year. Then the 1975 Holy Year refocused attention on the door and not the wall. By this time, the Holy Door at St. Peter’s had been completed with sculpted bronze panels. The panels on the front of the door are visible; but, inside, the back of the door is bricked up until the next Holy Year, when the bricks will be removed, the door pushed open by the Holy Father, and pilgrims again walk through it.