Friday, December 12th 2025 Established 1905 27 Brickdam, Stabroek, Georgetown, Guyana Year 120, No. 48
Closing of Jubilee Year in Diocese is Dec 28 His Lordship Bishop Francis Alleyne OSB has given the following message on the closing of the Jubilee Year 2025:
CLOSING OF JUBILEE YEAR Over the last year we have regularly prayed the Jubilee Prayer and many communities undertook pilgrimages, planned special events, put aside time for devotions as Pilgrims of Hope.
While the year is coming to its close we are all urged to sustain the Hope and continue our pilgrimage invoking God’s grace to “transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel” in the hope that “those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth.” (Jubilee Prayer). The formal closing of the Jubilee Year will be on Sunday 28th December 2025, (please turn to p2)
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Bishop’s Engagements Third Sunday of Advent: December 14th 07:30hrs – Mass at St. Joseph the Worker, Linden 10:00hrs – Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Wismar 15:00hrs – Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes, Silver Hill Monday, December 15th 05:00hrs – Novena at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Brickdam Tuesday, December 16th 05:30hrs – Novena at Our Lady of the Mount, Meadow Bank Wednesday, December 17th 05:30hrs – Novena at St. Teresa, Campbellville
On Mon. December 8th - the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Patronal Feast of the Cathedral the community gathered in reverence to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Catholic Media Guyana Facebook)
13:00hrs – Attend Christmas Social, Life Centre, Cathedral Presbytery Thursday, December 18th 17:30hrs – Novena at Sacred Heart, Main Street Friday, December 19th 05:30hrs – Novena at St. Pius X, West La Penitence Saturday, December 20th 05:30hrs – Novena at Holy Spirit, North Ruimveldt Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 21st 08:00hrs – Mass at St. Anthony of Padua, Bartica
Francis Alleyne OSB