December 20, 2024

Service, procession before Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral on Dec. 29 will help mark start of Jubilee Year of Hope

Criterion staff report

2025 Jubilee YearThe Church celebrates a jubilee year every quarter of a century. Pope Francis has designated “Pilgrims of Hope” as the theme for the 2025 Jubilee Year, which begins on Dec. 24.

To mark the launch of the Jubilee Year, a prayer service will take place in Indianapolis on Dec. 29 at 10 a.m. at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., followed by a procession ending with Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St.

Father James Brockmeier, director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship and rector of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, will lead the service and procession and celebrate the Mass.

The service will take place in Assembly Hall at the Catholic Center. It will include the reading of a proclamation of the beginning of the Jubilee Year and a Gospel reading about hope.

A procession will follow from Assembly Hall, with Father Brockmeier leading the way with a cross, which he calls “the sign of hope and central image leading us into the Jubilee Year.”

The first stop (weather permitting) will be the Xavier Building on the Catholic Center grounds. Home to several archdiocesan charitable ministries, the Xavier Building serves as “a sign of the work that takes place every day in our archdiocese that brings hope to those in need, and a reminder of our call to be a source of hope for others,” says Father Brockmeier.

The procession will then make its way for a solemn entrance into SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral for Mass.

Parking will be available behind the cathedral and at the Catholic Center.

For more information, call SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral at 317-634-4519. †

 

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