‘Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:19). That life becomes manifest in our own life of faith, which begins with Baptism, develops in openness to God’s grace and is enlivened by a hope constantly renewed and confirmed by the working of the Holy Spirit.’ (Spes Non Confundit, 3)

With the papal bull Spes Non Confundit, Pope Francis announces a Jubilee Year in 2025, and calls the whole of the Church to renewal in the virtue of Hope. The Jubilee Year will be inaugurated on Christmas Eve, 2024, with the opening of the Holy Doors of St Peter’s Basilica. On 29th December, in every Cathedral worldwide, diocesan bishops will celebrate a solemn Mass for the Jubilee Year. Through these solemn rites, the whole of the Church is invited to become Pilgrims of Hope in “an intense experience of the love of God that awakens in hearts the sure hope of salvation in Christ.” (Spes Non Confundit, 6)