Peachtree Corners is front and center in the Holy Year of 2025
As Catholics worldwide make their pilgrimages near and far this year for the Jubilee Holy Year of Hope 2025, Catholic pilgrims from around the region will converge at Mary Our Queen Parish in Peachtree Corners to mark this once-in-every-twenty-five-years event.
Though traditionally, many pilgrimage to Rome, Catholics in Georgia who cannot make the overseas journey to Italy have another option here, closer to home. Archbishop Gregory John Hartmayer designated Mary Our Queen as the principal shrine or parish for the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
About the Jubilee
Catholics have celebrated these Holy Years for centuries, but the idea of a Jubilee is older still and is found in the pages of the Old Testament.
According to Mary Our Queen’s website, “Jubilee years have been held at regular intervals in the Catholic church since 1300, but they trace their roots to the Jewish tradition of marking a Jubilee year every 50 years.”
The Vatican website for the Jubilee shares that these years in Jewish history were “intended to be marked as a time to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another and with all of creation, and involved the forgiveness of debts, the return of misappropriated land and a fallow period for the fields.”
For Catholics, the Jubilee is a special year for conversion and to deepen their Christian faith.
The last ordinary Jubilee was in 2000, though Pope Francis also called for an Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in 2015-2016.
You can learn more about the Holy Year and Mary Our Queen’s year-long celebration plans at maryourqueen.com/jubilee-pilgrimage.
