Here are 10 things to know about the upcoming Jubilee Year.
10 things to know about Jubilee 2025, the Holy Year that begins Dec. 24
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‘Pilgrims of Hope’: Vatican prepares to welcome millions for Holy Year
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
The celebration of a Holy Year every 25 years is an acknowledgment that “the Christian life is a journey calling for moments of greater intensity to encourage and sustain hope as the constant companion that guides our steps toward the goal of our encounter with the Lord Jesus,” Pope Francis wrote.
Enormous cross at center of ’79 papal Mass in Philadelphia has new home at retreat house
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The newly refurbished cross was unveiled at its new place of honor at Malvern Retreat House where Father Douglas McKay offered prayers for a gathering of about 100 people.
Catholic groups merge events for giant pro-life youth rally before March for Life
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, Respect Life, World News
Pro-life organizers are hoping to augment that sense of togetherness with the merger of two pre-march youth events, announced Nov. 14. The Diocese of Arlington, Va., and host of Life is VERY Good since 2009, and the Knights of Columbus and the Sisters of Life, co-hosts of Life Fest since 2022, are joining forces to create one big pro-life rally called Life Fest ahead of the 2025 March for Life Jan. 24.
Everyone can be a saint by following the Beatitudes, pope says
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Catholic News Service
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God wants everyone to be a saint, and the clearest path to achieving that goal is loving service to others, Pope Francis said.
New head of U.S. papal missions wants to ‘bring God to the ends of the earth’ through the Eucharist
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Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Missions, News, World News
A priest who recently spent 65 days on the road with the Blessed Sacrament during a national eucharistic pilgrimage has been tapped to head the papal missions in the U.S. — and he told OSV News he’s ready to help missionaries near and far “bring God to the ends of the earth” through the Eucharist.
Despite long wait, chance to venerate saints’ relics offers ‘graces’ for congress-goers
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Filed Under: Eucharist, News, Saints, World News
Saints and blesseds whose relics were available for veneration in the chapel included the four patron saints of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Junipero Serra. The relic of Mary featured in the chapel was part of her veil.
A fishy lesson
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church
Whatever life is bringing you these days, no matter how difficult, I hope you will know and experience God’s presence in your life.
Here comes a saint who gives parents hope
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Saints
Carlo shows us that you can live for God even in this modern era. He reminds us that you can become a saint without founding a religious order or dying as a martyr or doing something that seems remarkable and significant. You can become a saint by living the life God invites you to live.
Comic book tells story of Buffalo priest up for sainthood and beloved for his work with poor
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Dubbed by local newspapers as “the padre of the poor,” Father Baker (1842-1936) built, in addition to the basilica, an orphanage, a maternity hospital, a trade school and a home for infant care.
Hours after his first Communion, boy begins remarkable recovery from debilitating illness
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Joshua’s first Communion in the hospital connects strongly to his healing, noting that the “extraordinary grace of holy Communion is a gift not only to his soul, but to his body.”
City named for body of Christ, Alabama shrine and Kentucky’s Trappist monastery on southern route
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Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News
Beginning on Pentecost May 19, the Juan Diego Route is one of four National Pilgrimage Routes that will converge in Indianapolis ahead of the July 17-21 National Eucharistic Congress. The pilgrimage and the congress are part of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that launched in 2022.
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