Pilgrims of Hope in the Diocese of Youngstown
Join with the faithful as parishes throughout the Diocese of Youngstown offer various celebrations to honor this year of Jubilee.
Announcements & Resources
Parish Intentions of Hope for 2025
We invite all to pray along with Bishop Bonnar and our parishes, asking for the Holy Spirit to renew us during this Year of Hope.
Jubilee Prayer Card 2025
Prayer cards featuring the crucifix from Saint Columba Cathedral are being distributed to all parishes in the Diocese of Youngstown for inclusion in Masses and other events throughout the Jubilee Year of Hope.
Diocese of Youngstown Announces 2025 Jubilee Opening Mass
Bishop David Bonnar will celebrate on the Feast of the Holy Family on December 29
Jubilee Year Hymn | Music Ministry
All parish music directors are encouraged to use the Jubilee Year official hymn “Pilgrims of Hope,” where appropriate within the liturgical year.
PARISH RESOURCES FOR JUBILEE 2025: YEAR OF HOPE | DIOCESAN LIBRARY
Books to help to help parishes prepare for the Jubilee 2025 may be borrowed from the Diocesan Library. Due to construction, please call before your visit to confirm that the resources you need are available: 330-744-8451 x296.
Jubilee Year 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope | Office of Clergy & Religious Services
In the Diocese of Youngstown the Opening Mass for the Jubilee Year was held on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. at Saint Columba Cathedral.
Upcoming Events with Bishop Bonnar (Bulletin Materials)
Bulletin materials available for upcoming events with Bishop Bonnar.
The Catholic Echo Podcast Topics: December 2024 & January 2025
Join us for a weekly discussion of your burning spiritual questions. For more information about the Catholic Echo Podcast topics, visit catholicecho.org/podcast.
Opening Mass at St. Columba Cathedral: December 29, 2024
Join your Catholic brothers and sisters at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress. Reserve your ticket today! For the first time in a generation, the Church will gather to ask Jesus to breathe his life into our dry bones and then send us back to our community to share his love.
The Diocese of Youngstown is coordinating travel and lodging for 125 Catholic pilgrims from our six counties to journey together to Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, please contact Very Rev. John-Michael Lavelle, Vicar for Missionary Discipleship at jlavelle@youngstowndiocese.org.
This historic 5-day gathering of missionary disciples will be a new Pentecost, a powerful anointing and personal commission to invite others to know Christ. Your life—and our Church—will never be the same.
At the National Eucharistic Congress, the Church will draw into a deeper intimacy with our Eucharistic Lord, allowing our eyes to be opened and our hearts to be set on fire with his love.
The whole Congress will be an experience of prayer: a liturgical act offering the Catholic Church—those in attendance in Indianapolis as well as across the country—to the Father, through the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. This reconsecration will result in a massive outpouring of grace and renewed missionary sending as participants are moved to share the Eucharistic love of the Lord “for the life of the world” (John 6:51).
General Event FAQs from Corporate Travel (PDF)
The Diocese of Youngstown is coordinating travel and lodging for 125 Catholic pilgrims from our six counties to journey together to Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, please contact Very Rev. John-Michael Lavelle, Vicar for Missionary Discipleship at jlavelle@youngstowndiocese.org.
The National Eucharistic Revival is a three-year process sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Bishops to “inspire and prepare the People of God to be formed, healed, converted, united, and sent out to a hurting and hungry world through a renewed encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist – the source and summit of our Catholic faith” (quote taken from the website for the National Eucharistic Revival).
The first year, beginning on June 19, 2022 and continuing until June 2023, has been identified as the Year of Diocesan Revival. The Very Rev. John-Michael Lavelle, coordinator of the Eucharistic Revival in the Diocese of Youngstown and the diocese’s Vicar for Missionary Discipleship, says that in the diocesan year, “we will travel to all parts of the diocese, united in the Mass, Eucharistic Processions, and Holy Hours – leading us to a deeper appreciation of the presence of Christ in our lives.”
The second year of the Eucharistic Revival has been identified as the Year of Parish Revival and will run from June 2023 until July 2024. It will include efforts to strengthen eucharistic devotion and experience at the parish level. Father Lavelle notes that, “In the early days of our diocese, a book was prepared, entitled, The March of the Eucharist, which highlighted all the places of worship in which we celebrated the Eucharist – mainly, our parish Churches. The Eucharistic Revival is an opportunity to discover that the ‘march of the Eucharist’ continues in new ways and that, having experienced the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, we are called to share him with the world.”
In July 2024, a National Eucharistic Congress will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, the tenth in the history of the United States, inaugurating the “Year of Going Out on Mission” until Pentecost 2025.
