SPES NON CONFUNDIT - HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT

Pope Francis officially declared 2025 a Year of Jubilee with a papal bull, titled “Spes Non Confudit,” meaning “Hope Does Not Disappoint.” The Jubilee Year will begin with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve 2024.

SPES NON CONFUNDIT

BULL OF INDICTION OF THE ORDINARY JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2025 BY FRANCIS, BISHOP OF ROME, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD

TO ALL WHO READ THIS LETTER, MAY HOPE FILL YOUR HEARTS

SPES NON CONFUNDIT. “Hope does not disappoint” (Rom 5:5). In the spirit of hope, the Apostle Paul addressed these words of encouragement to the Christian community of Rome. Hope is also the central message of the coming Jubilee that, in accordance with an ancient tradition, the Pope proclaims every twenty-five years. My thoughts turn to all those pilgrims of hope who will travel to Rome in order to experience the Holy Year and to all those others who, though unable to visit the City of the Apostles Peter and Paul, will celebrate it in their local Churches. For everyone, may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the “door” (cf. Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere and to all as “our hope” (1 Tim 1:1).