The theme for Jubilee Year 2025 is “Pilgrims of Hope”,  a year of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis.

Preparations for the 2025 Year of Jubilee will begin in Advent 2023, which will mark the start of a year of prayer.

We will be regularly updating this page with suggestions and resources for use by parishes, priests, religious and laypeople to assist our community in preparing this most vital year in the Church calendar.

Each Diocese is permitted to establish ‘Shrine Churches’ where the faithful can go on pilgrimage, attend Mass and receive the Sacrament of Penance, and at the same time gain a Plenary Indulgence under the usual conditions ( What is a Plenary Indulgence?) .

For our Diocese of Portsmouth, the following Shrine Churches have been designated: St. John’s Cathedral in Portsmouth, St. James’s Reading, Sacred Heart Bournemouth, St. Edmund’s Southampton, St. Thomas’s in St. Helier, Jersey and St. Joseph’s in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

For more information on these parishes, click here for our Shrine Churches page.

For more information on the events, please click on this link to go to the official Jubilee 2025 events page.

A Pilgrim Way for the Diocese of Portsmouth from the Cathedral of St John in Portsmouth to the national Shrine of St Joseph in Farnborough Abbey via the Cathedral of the Bishopric of the Armed Forces.

For more info visit Pilgrim Ways – Portsmouth.