Jubilee 2025 Pilgrims of Hope

As a school we will be joining together with the Catholic community to celebrate the Jubilee Pilgrims of Hope in 2025.

What is the Jubilee?

• A Jubilee is a significant moment in the life of the Church that happens every 25 years.

• Biblically, the Jubilee is a time of renewal, celebration, rest and freedom.

• In Old Testament times, debts were cancelled, prisoners and enslaved people were freed, and even the land was able to rest.

• Pope Francis has called this Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. It’s an invitation to renew our hope, a hope which comes from knowing that God loves each one of us, whoever we are.

• He has asked us to be signs of hope for others, by putting Catholic Social Teaching into action through caring for our common home, and supporting our sisters and brothers who are experiencing war, hunger or poverty.

Jubilee prayer for schools

God, our loving Father,

In this Jubilee year,

you remind us of our call to love creation.

Help us to work together

to replant, repair, and renew.

Guide us on our journey as pilgrims of hope.

Jesus, our light,

In this Jubilee year,

you remind us of our call to love our neighbours

and to set free those who suffer.

Help us to treat everyone with dignity;

to be fair, forgiving and kind.

Guide us on our journey as pilgrims of hope.

Holy Spirit, our inspiration,

In this Jubilee year, you remind us of our call to grow in faith and love.

Help us to hear you in scripture, to see Jesus in others,

and to be united as God’s global family.

Guide us on our journey as pilgrims of hope.

Amen

Written in collaboration with Missio.