Jubilee Year of Hope
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About the Jubilee Year of Hope
Pope Francis in 2022 declared that 2025 would be the Jubilee Year of Hope (the 2,025th anniversary of the Incarnation of our Lord). It officially began on December 24, 2024 with the great tradition of opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Francis.
More information can be found at www.usccb.org/jubilee2025.
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What is a Jubilee Year?
A Jubilee Year happens every 25 years. Former Archbishop Lisetcki recently described it as such:
2025 marks a celebration occurring only every 25 years: an Ordinary Jubilee Year. Jubilee years carry a rich tradition in which the people of Israel, freed from slavery, proclaimed liberty to captives and forgiveness to debtors. People returned to their homeland and renewed their trust in God by relying solely on what He provided.
He also shared in his letter the areas that we will renew our hope during 2025 in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee:
Hope in God’s mercy. Return to and avail yourself often of the essential sacrament of Reconciliation. Churches across the archdiocese will be open and ready to welcome you back on April 9. This will also be a day of reparation and fasting...
...Hope in Jesus’ Great Commission that we evangelize. May this year be when we courageously invite our loved ones, friends, and strangers to the joy and beauty present every Sunday in the Eucharist. Let us love others by inviting them to God’s greatest gift on this side of heaven.
Hope in our marital relationships in the Church. Our parishes will have open arms to those who wish to discuss a previous marriage and a possible annulment. And those who married outside the Church for whatever reason are warmly invited to discuss celebrating the sacrament of Marriage within the Church.
Hope in our relationship with those who are struggling. I ask us to turn our attention to those laboring in prisons especially. These brothers and sisters suffer silently. We will encourage all to create human connections with those we may not know.
Credit: The Archdiocese of Milwaukee
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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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