On Christmas Eve at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis symbolically opened the holy door that marks the Jubilee year, which happens every 25 years. This Jubilee is the Year of Hope, and will run until the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, 2026. While only Rome has formal holy doors, the Archdiocese of New York is offering Jubilee pilgrimage sites where indulgences may be obtained as part of this very special time for the Church.

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The Logo shows four stylized figures to indicate all of humanity from the four corners of the earth. They each embrace one 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.

Because often personal circumstances and world events call for a greater sense of hope, a description of the Logo says, the lower part of the Cross is elongated turning into an anchor, which dominates the movement of the waves.

Anchors often have been used as metaphors 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 not static," Fisichella suggested, "but 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."

The Jubilee 2025 Motto, Peregrinantes in Spem is also clearly visible in the color green.