The Surprise of a Jubilee Year:
Pope Francis is a man of surprises. On his election as Pope in 2013, he took the name of “Francis,’ a saint whose conversion was associated with listening to the words of the Crucified Lord in a country chapel on the outskirts of Assisi: “Francis, go and repair my house which, as you see, is falling into ruin.” In 2015, Pope Francis published the encyclical letter Laudato Si’ which significantly carried the subtitle, “On Care for Our Common Home.” On 24 May 2020, on the fifth anniversary of the encyclical, Pope Francis went on to announce a Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year. He invited “all persons of good will” to celebrate the Special Anniversary Year running from 24 May of this year to 24 May of next year and “take care of our common home and our more fragile brothers and sisters.”
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Fr Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam SDB
