Holy See invites entries for Jubilee 2025 official logo

Mar 04, 2022

By Hannah Brockhaus
The Vatican is holding a worldwide competition to choose the official logo for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year.

A Jubilee is a special Holy Year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church, which typically takes place every 25 years.

As preparations for the Jubilee year get underway in Rome, the Vatican’s Office for Evangelisation has opened up a contest to decide the year’s official logo.

The competition was announced on February 22, and submissions can be uploaded to the website from April 1 to May 20.

Both teams and individuals can enter, and the winning submission will be chosen by a panel of judges from the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation.

The motto for the 2025 Jubilee, approved by Pope Francis, is Pilgrims of Hope.

“The logo must portray the essence of the Jubilee event, with particular attention given to the motto,” according to the submission guidelines.

The 2025 Jubilee will be the Church’s first ordinary jubilee since St John Paul II led the Great Jubilee of 2000. The Jubilee of Mercy opened by Pope Francis in 2015 was an extraordinary jubilee.

Other required features for the Holy Year’s official logo are that it be original and unpublished, distinctive, adaptable to printing on different materials, and usable in both colour and black and white.

The logo should also include the Latin phrases Iubilaeum A.D. MMXXV, which means “Jubilee 2025,” and “Peregrinantes in spem,” which means Pilgrims of Hope.

The Vatican’s office for evangelisation said that the competition was “open to all” and “anyone can participate, subject to acceptance of the rules and regulations.”

“The Jubilee’s logo symbolically conveys a message in an immediate and fitting way, and is an expression both of the universality of the Church’s message and of the particular spiritual needs of our contemporaries, who find comfort in this message, inspired by the theme of hope,” the evangelisation council said.

Further information will be available on a website for the Jubilee logo (http://www. iubilaeum2025.va/en/logo.html). --CNA