September 2025 - For our relationship with all of creation
‘May this holy year help us to recover the confident trust that we require, in the Church and in society, in our relationships, in international relations, and in our task of promoting the dignity of all persons and respect for God’s gift of creation.’
Pope Francis, Jubilee 2025 letter, 25
August 2025 - For formation in discernment
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‘‘May the witness of believers be for our world a leaven of authentic hope, a harbinger of new heavens and a new earth (cf. 2 Peter 3:13), where men and women will dwell in justice and harmony, in joyful expectation of the fulfilment of the Lord’s promises.’
Pope Francis, Jubilee 2025 letter, 25
July 2025 - For formation in discernment
‘In the words of Benedict XVI: ‘At the moment of judgement we experience and we absorb the overwhelming power of God’s love over all the evil in the world and in ourselves. The pain of love becomes our salvation and our joy.’
Pope Francis, Jubilee 2025 letter, 22
June 2025 - That the world might grow in compassion
‘The death and resurrection of Jesus is the heart of our faith and the basis of our hope. For our sake, Jesus experienced the drama of death. The Father’s love raised him in the power of the Spirit and made his humanity the first fruits of our eternal salvation.’
Pope Francis
MAY 2025 - Remembering Pope Francis
‘Echoing the age-old message of the prophets, the Jubilee reminds us that the goods of the earth are not destined for a privileged few, but for everyone… I think especially of those who lack water and food: hunger is a scandal, an open wound on the body of our humanity.’
Pope Francis
April 2025 - For the use of the new technologies
‘During the Holy Year, we are called to be tangible signs of hope for those of our brothers and sisters who experience hardships of any kind.’
Pope Francis
MArch 2025 - For families in crisis
‘Forgiveness does not change the past; it cannot change what happened in the past, yet it can allow us to change the future and to live different lives, free of anger, animosity and vindictiveness. Forgiveness makes possible a brighter future’
Pope Francis, Jubilee 2025, 23
February 2025 - For vocations to the priesthood and religious life
‘I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will it be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.’
Romans 8:38-39, quoted by Pope Francis in Jubilee 2025 letter, 21