Los Angeles opens 2025 jubilee year: ‘We’re all on pilgrimage’
At the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Dec. 29 wasn’t too early for a certain kind of New Year’s celebration.
As bells rang and hundreds gathered around a stage in the Cathedral Plaza amid stubborn morning fog, the countdown was over: It was time to open the Jubilee Holy Year, celebrated every 25 years by Catholics around the world.
The event began in the plaza with a special rite before 10 a.m. Sunday Mass, officially launching the “Jubilee of Hope” in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles days after Pope Francis did the same by opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.