Holy year 2025: Hope as a leitmotif - bells ring in South Tyrol!

Holy year 2025: Hope as a leitmotif - bells ring in South Tyrol!

Brixen, Italien - On December 29, 2024, the Bolzano-Brixen diocese is heralded the Holy Year 2025, with the ringing of all church bells. Diocesan bishop Ivo Muser invites the believers to take part in the opening ceremony in the Brixner Cathedral at 3 p.m. This special celebration is part of a global event that is under the motto "pilgrim of hope". Pope Francis announced this anniversary year to promote hope in times of crises and threats. Muser emphasizes: "We need hope to give children their lives and to preserve the threatened and wounded creation", and invites everyone to design this year as "people of hope", the Kathpress.

future highlights of the Holy Year

The most important events of the Holy Year include a youth pilgrimage to Rome from July 28 to August 3, 2025 and the diocesan law trip from October 27th to 30th, 2025. An additional social project of the diocesancaritas will also act as a sign of hope; It aims to create living opportunities for people in housing shortage, as the daily newspaper emphasized. In order to support the Holy Year, the bishop also calls for the celebration of personal and community pilgrimages to seven anniversary churches in South Tyrol, where the anniversary closure can be received.

The Holy Year 2025, which begins on December 29, 2024 and lasts until the festival of the Holy Family on December 28, 2025, is not only celebrated in the local framework, but in all dioceses worldwide. In particular, the holy gates in the four main churches of Rome will be an important symbol during this time that represents God's love and mercy. These initiatives should give hope in difficult times, emphasizes Bishop Muser in his message.