List of Pilgrim Churches in Caceres for Jubilee 2025 released

By Myrna Bermudo

In celebration of Jubilee 2025, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has designated fourteen (14) official Pilgrim Churches in the Archdiocese of Caceres for the Jubilee Year 2025: Pilgrims of Hope. Four churches in the Central District were designated; four churches in the district of Rinconada; three churches in Partido district and, in the Bay district, three churches.

Here is the list of Jubilee Pilgrim Churches in the Archdiocese of Caceres, released by the CBCP on November 4.

Archdiocese of CACERES Jubilee Churches

CENTRAL DISTRICT: 1. Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Peñafrancia (Balatas Rd., Naga City); 2. Our Lady of Peñafrancia Parish (Peñafrancia Avenue, Naga City); 3. St John the Evangelist Parish (Elias Angeles St., Naga City); 4. Archdiocesan Shrine & Parish of St Jude Thaddeus (Concepcion Grande, Naga City)

RINCONADA DISTRICT

5. Archdiocesan Shrine & Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (San Isidro, Iriga City); 6. Archdiocesan Shrine & Parish of St Anthony of Padua (Iriga City); 7. Holy Cross Parish (Nabua, Camarines Sur); 8. Archdiocesan Shrine & Parish of Nuestra Señora de Soledad (Tambo, Buhi, Camarines Sur)

PARTIDO DISTRICT

9. St. Peter the Baptist Parish (Old Moriones Ocampo, Camarines Sur); 10. Archdiocesan Shrine & Parish of St. Joseph (San Jose, Camarines Sur); 11. St. Michael the Archangel Parish (Caramoan, Camarines Sur)

BAY DISTRICT

12. St. Anne Parish (Magarao, Camarines Sur); 13. Nuestra Señora de La Porteria Parish (Calabanga, Camarines Sur); 14. St. Paschal Baylon Parish (Tinambac, Camarines Sur).

The 2025 Jubilee will officially open on December 24, 2024, at 7pm with a Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Francis, announced, in his Bull of Indiction, entitled ‘Spes non confundit’ (‘Hope does not disappoint’) the beginning of a Jubilee Year. The announcement was made on 9 May, the Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Jubilee Year will begin with the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, 2024.

Pope Francis had written that “Hope is the central message of the coming Jubilee that, in accordance with an ancient tradition, the Pope proclaims every twenty-five years. My thoughts turn to all those pilgrims of hope who will travel to Rome in order to experience the Holy Year and, for everyone, may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the “door” (cf. Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere and to all as “our hope” (1 Tim 1:1).”

“The coming Jubilee will thus be a Holy Year marked by the hope that does not fade, our hope in God. May it help us to recover the confident trust that we require, in the Church and in society, in our interpersonal relationships, in international relations, and in our task of promoting the dignity of all persons and respect for God’s gift of creation,” Pope Francis admonished.