The Year of the Jubilee

Jubilee year is focused on the year of Hope. The children of St Joseph’s have produced a display based around The Journey of Hope within the different Catholic Social Teaching principles.

·         Dignity

·         Solidarity Y1

·         The common good

·         The option for the poor

·         Peace

·         Creation and environment

·         The dignity of work and participation

In the Old Testament every fifty years the People of God had a Jubilee Year. It was a year when debts were forgiven, land returned to the original owners, the poor were cared for even more. It was a year to be extra joyful for God’s love and a year to share that love with others even more than usual. It was a party year celebrating God’s love. These days, we celebrate the Jubilee Year every twenty-five years.

2025 is a Jubilee Year. It is a year to celebrate God’s love with others. It is a year to show mercy and forgiveness. It is a time to renew our relationship with God, with one another and with the whole of creation. It is a year of justice, freedom and celebration.

Pope Francis has called this Jubilee Year, “Pilgrims of Hope,” and invites us to be people of hope. Hope comes from knowing that God loves each one of us and God has defeated sin and death. Hope knows that all ends well because all ends in God. God’s love wins, we know that. Therefore, we are confident that God’s love will see us all through all the difficulties in life. That is true hope.