C&SI - Christmas 2024 Roundup and the beginning of Jubilee 2025 - 5 Jan 2025 (S05E07b) (podcast excerpt)

Happy New Year and Happy Christmas! 

We are still in the Christmas Season until the feast of the Baptism of the Lord so it is still appropriate to wish everyone a blessed Christmastide from the team here on C&SI! So this weeks podcast is a little light, both taking into account the Christmas season and also the spate of flus that are doing the rounds and decimating the podcasting team!

So on this weeks podcast excerpt we have a run through the events marking Christmas and the beginning of the Jubilee 2025 - Year of Hope - in Rome with links below.

Links:

• 24 Dec - Pope Francis opens Holy Door inaugurating 2025 Jubilee (Vatican News)
• Christmas message from Bishop Brendan Leahy 2024
• 25 Dec - Urbi et Orbi - Pope at Christmas Urbi et Orbi: May we become pilgrims of hope, peace, and unity (Vatican News)
• 25 Dec - Complete Urbi et Orbi blessing (Rome Reports (video))
• 26 Dec - Pope opens Holy Door at a prison for first time ever (Vatican News)
•  26 Dec - The Pope's visit to the Roman prison to start the Jubilee (Rome Reports (video))
• 26 Dec - Popes Angelus - Pope on St. Stephen's Day: 'God forgives always and everything' (Vatican News)
• 29 Dec - Cardinal Vicar of Rome opens Holy Door of Saint John Lateran Basilica (Vatican News)
• 29 Dec - Dioceses across the world celebrate opening of Jubilee Year (Vatican News)
• 31 Dec - Vespers and Te Deum - Pope Francis: The hope of a fraternal world is Jesus (Vatican News)
• 1 Jan - Saint Mary Major's Holy Door is open (Vatican News)

Jubilee 2025

• Jubilee 2025 website
• Countdown to '2025 Jubilee Year of Hope' in Ireland, Rome and around the world
• Bishop Brendan Leahy (Limerick) Speaks on the Jubilee Year 2025