St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Learn to love, love to learn
At St. Bernadette's Catholic School you will find us caring, hardworking and co-operative. We follow the ways of Jesus using our talents and gifts to make our school special. We show respect to all and welcome you.
Head Teacher: Angela Cowings
Hob Moor Road, Yardley, Birmingham, B25 8QL
0121 783 7232
Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope
We are excited to share that this year marks a special Jubilee Year, celebrated by people around the world as a journey of faith, hope, and renewal. Every 25 years, the Catholic Church celebrates a Holy Year of Jubilee, and Pope Francis has called this Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
Pope Francis is inviting us all to reflect on our own life journeys and the hope we carry with us along the way. It’s a very special, holy, year of forgiveness and mercy, a time to reset, and to renew our relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.
In school, we will celebrate the Jubilee Year with a range of events, which we will share through our newsletter, on X, and here, on the school website.
"Hope does not disappoint, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." (Rom 5:1-2.5)
What is a pilgrim?
Pilgrims are people who travel to holy places on a journey that helps them grow closer to God. Even if we can’t travel far away, the Jubilee Year will still be a journey for all of us - a journey of hope.
The beginning of the Jubilee Year
The Holy Door, very special door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City., was opened by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve to mark the beginning of the Jubilee Year. This is a big event because the Holy Door shows that God is always ready to welcome everyone with love and forgiveness. When the Pope opened it, it’s like a sign that everyone is invited to come closer to God.So, when the Pope opened the Holy Door on Christmas Eve, it reminded us that we can always find hope and love with God, and that He is always there for us, no matter what.
Click on the image below to watch the Holy Door being opened on Christmas Eve 2024.
The Holy Door will be bricked up at the end of the Jubilee Year. For the 2025 Year of Hope, the Holy Door will be closed after the year ends, which will be on 6th January 2026, the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord.
On that date, the Pope will officially close the Holy Door to mark the end of the special time of grace, forgiveness, and pilgrimage. The door will remain sealed until the next Jubilee Year.
Catholic Social Teaching and the Jubilee Year
Pope Francis asks us to be signs of hope for others, by putting Catholic Social Teaching into action through caring for our common home and supporting our sisters and brothers who are experiencing war, hunger or poverty.
The Jubilee Prayer
(please add thumbnails of the prayer so when it is clkicked on the prayer pops up – a bit like the newsletters). I’ve attached the prayers
