The National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos in New Orleans has been designated as a Pilgrimage Site during the 2025 Jubilee:  Pilgrims of Hope. Pope Francis writes in the Papal Bull announcing the Jubilee Year:

The Jubilee will 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. 

May the witness of believers be for our world a leaven of authentic hope, a harbinger of new heavens and a new earth (cf. 2 Pet 3:13), where men and women will dwell in justice and harmony, in joyful expectation of the fulfillment of the Lord’s promises.

Let us even now be drawn to this hope! Through our witness, may hope spread to all those who anxiously seek it. May the way we live our lives say to them in so many words:

“Hope in the Lord! Hold firm, take heart and hope in the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14). May the power of hope fill our days, as we await with confidence the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and glory, now and forever.