By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted January 8, 2026 <\/p>\n
Hundreds of faithful from across the Archdiocese of Philadelphia gathered Dec. 28 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia for a closing Mass to celebrate the end of the 2025 Jubilee Holy Year<\/a>. The Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Nelson P\u00e9rez and joined by fellow clergy, marked the close of the Jubilee Year, which was designated by Pope Francis as a time to renew ourselves as \u201cPilgrims of Hope.\u201d (Photos: Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted January 8, 2026 Hundreds of faithful from across the Archdiocese of Philadelphia gathered…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[225517,5229,65300,1448,2830,1311,225518,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-502930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-2025-jubilee-year","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-archbishop-nelson-perez","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-pilgrims-of-hope","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863257339576610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}