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Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome with St James’s Church
Ecclesiastical Adviser to the Friends, Mgr Philip Whitmore, who is rector of St James’s Church, London, (known as Spanish Place), has kindly extended an invitation to members of the Friends of the Holy Father to join his parish in their pilgrimage to Rome from 20-25 October to celebrate the Jubilee Year. Further information and full itinerary available in the pilgrimages section. |
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Friends Contribute to Jubilee Year 2025
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The Jubilee Year, marked by the Holy Father’s words ‘May Hope Fill Our Days’ began with the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, 2024.
In our Catholic tradition, the Holy Door represents the passage to salvation, the path to a new and eternal life, which was opened to humanity by Jesus, as Pope Francis explained in Spes Non Confundit, (Hope Does Not Disappoint), the Papal Bull, which officially proclaimed the Holy Year of 2025. |
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This symbolic start to the Jubilee Year was followed by four more openings of Holy Doors: one in Rebibbia Prison, Rome on 26 December 2024; St John Lateran, (the Cathedral of Rome) on 29 December; the Basilica of St Mary Major on 1January 2025, and finally the Holy Door of the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls on 5 January 2025.
We are delighted to announce that The Friends of the Holy Father are privileged to have been involved in the Jubilee year. We responded to an appeal from the Dicastery for Communications in Rome for assistance to Vatican media by funding an outdoor studio in St Peters Square, which will enable them to provide worldwide coverage of all the events taking place during the Jubilee Year.
The Jubilee Year will end in Rome on the feast of the Epiphany, 6 January 2026.
We are delighted to announce that The Friends of the Holy Father are privileged to have been involved in the Jubilee year. We responded to an appeal from the Dicastery for Communications in Rome for assistance to Vatican media by funding an outdoor studio in St Peters Square, which will enable them to provide worldwide coverage of all the events taking place during the Jubilee Year.
The Jubilee Year will end in Rome on the feast of the Epiphany, 6 January 2026.
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New Papal Nuncio - Pope Francis appointed Spanish Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain in April 2023. He succeeded Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti who was appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches in November 2022 and who was recently made a Cardinal. Read our latest Newsletter.
You can read our previous communications on our newsletters page.
Latest constitution
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