Jubilee Year of Hope 2025
Every 25 years the Universal Church observes a jubilee year. Many of you will remember the year 2000 as being our last jubilee year, which of course means 2025 will be our next one. It’s an opportunity for the Church throughout the world to work together in faith and call upon God’s grace to come upon us. Pope Francis has nominated the year 2025 as a Year of Hope. So, our prayer and worship is to ask for the great gift of Hope.
In his annual Christmas message, Archbishop John Wilson said in a divided world, filled with conflict, it can be tempting to lose hope. But in times of darkness, division and pain “we must turn to our one, great living hope – the Lord Jesus. In Him, and in His message of Good News, we see the possibility of a different and better world”.
He has invited parishes to encourage more Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament during the year, so Friday morning Adoration will begin at 9.15am and last the full hour. Also, the first Friday of every month we shall have Adoration from 6.30pm – 7.15pm followed by Mass at 7.30pm. Our parish church will be open every day 8am – 6pm.
May our lives be open to God’s grace this coming year and become people of real hope.