On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis will proclaim the beginning of the Holy Year 2025 for the Catholic Church. A Holy Year is a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation in which people are invited to come back into the right relationship with God, with one another, and with all creation.
Holy Years are celebrated every 25 years since the first Holy Year was celebrated in 1300. These special Years are also a time to remember our beloved dead. It is a Holy Year in which we place their lives and ours in the hands of God by embracing hope and keeping them in our prayers.
Therefore, during this November, a time to remember our departed family, friends, and Alumni, we will prepare to enter a “Holy Door” of remembrance. It is a portal to the beauty of our memories and a leap of hope that one day, we will be reunited with them. We would like to invite you to send the names of your departed loved ones so that they may be placed on a special “altar of holy remembrance” in our San Damiano Chapel. They will be assured of our prayers during our celebration of Mass and at times of personal prayer. May this be indeed a Holy Year of prayerful hope and loving remembrance.
Peace and all good!
Fr. Conrad Targonski, O.F.M
Viterbo University Chaplain