Pope Francis emphasizes the importance of hope in the face of global challenges in his book 'Hope is A Light in The Night'. He invites everyone to participate in the 2025 Jubilee Year as a celebration of Jesus Christ's birth and a call to spread hope throughout the world.
Rite & Reason: Pope Francis situates the need for hope in the challenging world of ‘gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism’
Everyone is invited to participate in this special year of faith through prayer, by supporting liturgies and events locally in dioceses, and/or in Rome for the global celebrations. So why will Jubilee 2025 be the most significant for humanity of all of the jubilee years held to date? So, how can we put our best foot forward and prepare for Jubilee 2025? In the last few weeks Pope Francis has published a book on the theme pilgrims of hope called Hope is A Light in The Night.
Hope, he tells us, is both a gift and task for every Christian. It is more than what the secular world might wish for, an ideal or a sense of optimism, eg; hoping for fine weather or success in passing an exam. It is very real, concrete and present to us because it has been infused into our soul at Baptism, gifting us the pathway to eternal salvation.
Finally, Jubilee 2025 will be a time of transition. This movement from old to new is captured symbolically with the ritual of opening of “Holy Doors”. Holy doors are liminal spaces in sacred spaces; cathedrals, basilicas, places of pilgrimage.
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