Each week Catholic News will be highlighting different elements of the upcoming Jubilee 2025 year. Stay informed about events that will be taking place, both nationally and internationally, for this Holy Year, and join in on preparing for this important celebration.
During their 2024 Summer General Meeting held in Maynooth, the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed Pope Francis’ message for the 2025 Jubilee Year entitled Spes non Confundit (Hope Does Not Disappoint). The 2025 Holy Year has as its theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, and it will be a year of prayerful hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis.
The Holy Year will follow the current 2024 ‘Year of Prayer’, wherein Pope Francis (pictured attending the 9th World Meeting of Families in Ireland in 2018) has urged the faithful to pray for peace, especially amidst the wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine. Pope Francis is calling on all Catholics to renew in the hope of Christ, using Saint Paul the Apostle as a guide for this special year.
In preparation for the Jubilee, dioceses and parishes are invited to promote initiatives to remind the faithful of the centrality of both individual prayer and community prayer, including the specially composed Jubilee prayer:
The Jubilee Prayer
Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth, when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever.
Amen
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Source: https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025.html
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