This beautiful Jubilee rosary features multi color round wood beads, enamel Jubilee Our Father medals, an enamel Jubilee logo center, with a 2025 Jubilee crucifix with St Peter's across the top! A beautiful souvenir of the Jubilee Year of Hope!
Includes Jubilee explanation card! Made in Italy
The Jubilee Logo
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.
Urgency to live Jubilee in light of hope
Archbishop Fisichella reflected on Jubilees and why the upcoming one is significant.
"Every Holy Year in the history of the Church," he said, "has taken on its full meaning when it is placed within the historical context that humanity is experiencing at that time and particularly when it is able to read the signs of anxiety and unrest combined with people's perceived expectations.
"The vulnerability experienced in recent years, together with the fear of the violence of wars," he continued, "only makes the human condition more paradoxical: on the one hand, to feel the overwhelming power of technology which determines their days; on the other hand, to feel uncertain and confused about their future."
In this context, Archbishop Fisichella reminded, "Pilgrims of Hope" was chosen for the Jubilee's theme.
"It expresses the need to make sense of the present so that it can be preparatory for a real thrust into the future in order to embrace and respond to the various challenges that arise from time to time."
Jubilees' importance to life of the Church
In a recent letter addressed to Archbishop Fisichella, Pope Francis noted that “the Jubilee has always been an event of great spiritual, ecclesial, and social significance in the life of the Church.”
He recalled that ever since the year 1300, which marked the first Holy Year, "God’s holy and faithful people has experienced this celebration as a special gift of grace, characterized by the forgiveness of sins and in particular by the indulgence, which is a full expression of the mercy of God."
In the Church, a Jubilee, or Holy Year, is a great religious event.
A Jubilee is “ordinary” if it falls after the customary 25-year period, and “extraordinary” when it is proclaimed by for some outstanding event.
The last ordinary Jubilee took place in the year 2000 during the pontificate of Pope St. John Paul I. In 2015, Pope Francis proclaimed an Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy.