HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 THE JUBILEE YEAR OF HOPE
May we wish you a Happy New Year and we pray that 2025 will be filled with peace at home and abroad.
This year is no ordinary year in the life of the Church. The Holy Father has proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee Year, with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.” The practice of Jubilee Years already began in 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII invited the faithful to Rome for a time of pilgrimage, penance, and renewal, granting special indulgences. Since then, Jubilee Years taking place every 25 years have become significant moments in the Church’s spiritual life.
More information about the Jubilee Year can be found via :
The Jubilee Year prayer :
Father in heaven, may the faith you have given using your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel. May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever.
Amen
Today also, January 1st sees the Church celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God in whom we place our trust.
THE CATHOLIC POLICE GUILD PRAYER
Most Merciful God, giver of all authority, by the merits of Thy Divine Son and through the intercession of His Holy Mother and our glorious patron St. Michael, grant that we may this day and every day, overcome all temptations, especially to injustice and disloyalty, and with our minds inflamed by Thy Holy Spirit perform all our duties in such a manner as may be pleasing to Thy Divine Will, so that when called to report for the last time we may not be found wanting, and may be allowed to remain for ever in Thy Presence.
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen.
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