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Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers USCCB Resource Packet (English)
Pilgrims on the Way of Hope: A Resource for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers
Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers: Resource Packet
April 5-6, 2025
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
A Jubilee Year is an important and historical event in the life of the Church designed for the faithful to experience God’s loving mercy in a
special way. Traditionally, a Jubilee is proclaimed every twenty-five years, and the activities include pilgrimages, processions, special celebrations of Mass, and an invitation to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This Jubilee’s theme is “Pilgrims of Hope” and it begins on Christmas Eve, 2024 in Rome and concludes the following year on the Epiphany in 2026. The Jubilee’s activities are meant to encourage Catholics to both receive God’s mercy and invite participation in acts of mercy in our daily lives and communities. Pope Francis specifically asks us to consider working for peace and an end to conflicts, promoting human life, showing amnesty to prisoners, upholding the dignity of migrants, healing the sick, and accompanying the elderly.
The Holy See has designated a number of Jubilee Days throughout 2025 to recognize and celebrate different groups of people and various ministries in the Church.
The Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers helps us to celebrate the important service of healthcare providers and to recognize that accompanying the sick is an important vocation. Whether due to our own health or the health of a loved one, each of us has interfaced with health care workers at some point in our lives, and experienced first-hand the value of their accompaniment. Not only this, but each of us has likely also cared for a sick loved one in some capacity, and so we know how taxing it can be. As the Catholic Health Association states, “Catholic health care, [is] a ministry of the church continuing Jesus' mission of love and healing today. [This] ministry is an enduring sign of health care rooted in our belief that every person is a treasure, every life a sacred gift, every human being a unity of body, mind, and spirit” (Statement of Shared Identity). While each of us are called to continue Jesus's mission of love and healing in our own way, we recognize that the unique vocation of health care workers during this Jubilee.
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