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Pilgrims of Hope 2025

Our Hearts of Hope Tree is up in the Mary Chapel for the staff & children to write a prayer, & hang it on the tree! Look who was first to it this morning! What a beautiful prayer - so proud! 🙏❤️🙏

We are pilgrims on a Journey; Pilgrims of Hope!

Celebrating the Jubilee with Archbishop Bernard

Look at all the amazing work produced across the school today; stunning! Thanks to Mrs Morris & our Eco Warriors for the Seeds of Hope!

We’re getting ready for the Jubilee launch party on Friday! We are giving the whole day to celebrate the Jubilee! We’re all wearing colours of the Vatican Flag, decorating our classroom Doors of Hope, researching the Holy Doors & lots more! 🥳🎉

Our task, as true disciples of Jesus Christ, is to tell other people about this Jesus we know and love. That's what it means to be a witness to Jesus Christ. That's what it means to make Jesus known.

Year of Jubilee 2025 Pilgrims of Hope 

 

What is a Jubilee?

 

In the Catholic Church, a Jubilee or Holy Year is a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.

 

What is the theme for the Jubilee Year?

 

The theme is 'Pilgrims of Hope'

 

Pope Francis has invited Catholics to renew our hope and discover a vision that can "restore access to the fruits of the earth to everyone". We are also invited to rediscover a spirituality of God's creation in which we understand ourselves as "pilgrims on the earth" rather than masters of the world.

 

When does the Jubilee Year start and finish?

 

The 2025 Jubilee Year begins on Christmas Eve 2024 and concludes on 6 January 2026.Pope Francis will open the Holy Door on Christmas Eve 2024 to begin the Jubilee year.

The Jubilee Prayer

 

The official Prayer allows pilgrims from all over the world to use the same words to express gratitude to God for the Jubilee experience and request the grace of forgiveness. The official prayer of His Holiness Pope Francis for the Holy Year, this can be found in other languages on the website of the Jubilee. The Jubilee is an experience of faith and a profound encounter with the Lord.

 

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

Join us on our journey, as Pilgrims of Hope for the Jubilee Year! 🙏💜🙏 Thank you to @schoolsignscouk for providing us with our lovely banner! We are very excited about the year ahead! 💜💜💜

Official Hymn for the 2025 Jubilee - "Pilgrims of Hope"

Lyrics by Msgr. Pierangelo Sequeri Music by Maestro Francesco Meneghello Recording performed by the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC - Peter Latona, Director

Vatican unveils anime pilgrim mascot for Jubilee 2025

The Holy Doors are only opened during the Jubilee Year.

 

The opening of the Holy Door is the most well-known and moving ritual, marking the beginning of the Jubilee. The first documented account of the Holy Door opening ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee dates back to 1500 under Pope Alexander VI. 

LIVE | Jubilee 2025 | Opening of the Holy Door Basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls | January 5, 2025

👉🏻 Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/ewtn/vatican LIVE | Join us for the Opening of the 5th Holy Door of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, for the Jubilee of Hope 2025. Let us know where you are watching from and what your prayer requests are!

Full Rite Opening Third Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran | Jubilee 2025

Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Pope Francis's Vicar General, opens the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. This is the third Holy Door of the Jubilee of Hope 2025.

Pope Francis Opens Second Holy Door at Rebibbia Prison | Jubilee 2025

For the first time in the centuries-old Jubilee tradition, Pope Francis opened a fifth Holy Door-inside the Rebibbia New Complex Prison in Rome. A historic gesture of mercy and hope. #Jubilee2025


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