Before celebrating the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to dedicate time in 2023 to studying the documents and the ‘Four Constitutions’ of the Second Vatican Council, under the theme Pilgrims of Hope .

These Four Constitutions are:

Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (‘Sacrosantum Concillum’)

Constitution on the Church (‘Lumen Gentium’)

Constitution on Divine Revelation (‘Dei Verbum’)

Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (‘Gaudium et Spes’)

Held every 25 years since 1470 a holy year, or jubilee, is a time of pilgrimage, prayer, repentance and acts of mercy, based on the Old Testament tradition of a jubilee year of rest, forgiveness and renewal.

A new logo has also been created.

It shows four stylized figures to indicate all of humanity from the four corners of the earth. Each embraces another, indicating the solidarity and brotherhood that must unite peoples. The first figure is clinging to the cross.

The underlying waves are choppy to indicate that the pilgrimage of life is not always on calm waters and that personal circumstances and world events call for a greater sense of hope. This is why the lower part of the Cross is elongated turning into an anchor, which dominates the movement of the waves. As is well known, the anchor has often been used as a metaphor for hope.

The image shows how the pilgrim’s journey is not individual, but rather communal, with the signs of a growing dynamism that moves more and more toward the Cross. The Cross is dynamic, bending toward and meeting humanity as if not to leave it alone, but rather offering the certainty of its presence and the reassurance of hope.

Finally, the Jubilee 2025 Motto, Peregrinantes in Spem or ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ is prominant.