As the Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope draws to a close, its culmination is anything but the end of the hope that defined the year, Bishop John Dolan told the congregation during the Diocese of Phoenix’s Jubilee Closing Mass at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix Sunday.

“What we have received in this Jubilee Year is not meant to remain behind stone thresholds or special moments, it is meant to be carried into our ordinary life, into our homes and to our families, into our conversations and our choices,” the bishop told a capacity crowd in his homily.

“Hope is not a place we visit for a year. Hope is Someone: Jesus Christ ... who abides with us always. He is truly Emmanuel, God with us.”