Jubilee 2025 Preparation

                     The Jubilee Year of Prayer

On January 21, 2024, Pope Francis announced a Year of Prayer ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, calling on the faithful “to pray more fervently to prepare ourselves to live properly this grace-filled event and to experience the power of hope in God.”

The Year of Prayer, the Holy Father explained, is dedicated “to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer, prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, prayer in the world.”

Father in heaven,
  may the faith you have given us
  in 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. 

~Pope Francis