ALLENTOWN, Pa. – This past year was a special one for Catholics all across the world.<\/p>\n
It was the Jubilee Year of Hope, and on Sunday, the Allentown Catholic Diocese held a special service to bring the year’s festivities to an end. It was held inside the Cathedral of Saint Catherine of Siena.<\/p>\n
“Every 25 years they proclaim a Jubilee for the entire church community,” said Sister Mathilde DeLucy.<\/p>\n
The jubilee began on December 28th of 2024. Since then, Bishop Alfred Schlert said it has included five special masses of the Anointing of the Sick, and even a pilgrimage to Rome.<\/p>\n
“We’ve received a lot of blessings in this past year. So many different ways that God has blessed us, so we give a lot of thanks today,” said Bishop Schlert.<\/p>\n
Church parishioners in the pews tell us the closing ceremony was a special experience.<\/p>\n
“There’s such a feeling of love that goes throughout, and I wish that that love could extend beyond this church,” said Patricia Lorenz.<\/p>\n
“As a Catholic community, coming together and reminding ourselves that, no matter what’s going on in the world, whatever it is, the Lord is with us,” said Sister DeLucy.<\/p>\n
As the Year of Hope comes to an end, the Allentown Diocese is preparing to celebrate another momentous event: the 65th anniversary of its founding. Bishop Schlert said there’s a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n
“The year of hope may be over today, but the hope that we have as Jesus as our savior never ends,” said Bishop Schlert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – This past year was a special one for Catholics all across the world. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,37784,37783,6561,34315,37781,6271,36939,37782,915,28,9111],"class_list":["post-72523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-cathedral-of-saint-catharine","tag-cathedral-of-saint-catharine-of-siena","tag-culture-of-allentown","tag-diocese","tag-diocese-of-allentown","tag-italy","tag-jubilee","tag-jubilee-in-the-catholic-church","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}