This is the second part of the article preparing for the jubilee year in 2025. The first part was published in December 2023. Sr. Celine reflects on the motto, logo, hymn, and the specific areas we need to focus on as we move forward towards the Jubilee year 2025.
JUBILEE 2025 – A GIFT OF GRACE
Every Jubilee Year is a special Year of Grace. The Pope inaugurates the Holy Year with the rite of the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. After that, the Holy Doors of the other Papal Basilicas – St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major are opened, and remain open, until the end of the Jubilee Year. Every Holy Year in the history of the Church, since Boniface VIII declared the first Holy Year in 1300, has its own significance. Pope Francis describes it as a ‘Gift of Grace” to be experienced through ‘pilgrimages, indulgences, living testimonies of faith and full expression of God’s Mercy.’ It is an occasion for all of us to live these years of preparation with the utmost enthusiasm that a Jubilee dedicated to Hope demands and to keep burning the torch of Hope that has been gifted to us, so that, everyone regains the strength and certainty to look to the future, as Pope Francis says, “with an open spirit, a trusting heart and a far-sighted vision. The Jubilee Year can greatly contribute to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire.”
Sr. Celine D’Cunha FMA
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