The Jubilee Year – Pilgrims of Hope

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The Holy Mother Church traditionally proclaims a Jubilee year every 25 years. It is a year of special grace and forgiveness which offers the faithful the opportunity to obtain a plenary indulgence. Pope Francis declared that 2024 would be dedicated to prayer in preparation for the Jubilee. The Year of Prayer is, in the Pope's words, focused on “rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer, prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, prayer in the world.”

In order to promote the importance of the Jubilee year of the Church, the Daughters of St Paul took the initiative to reach out to the Hindi speaking migrants of St Ann’s Church, Mallapur. Earlier, our sisters had conducted the way of the cross there. So, the parish priest Fr Suresh OCD had invited our sisters once again to speak to the parishioners on the theme of the Jubilee Year 2025, “Pilgrims of Hope.”

Sr Magdalene Lazarus helped the migrants to understand the importance of the Jubilee year by first explaining about the Logo and the theme, “Pilgrims of Hope”. Sister then explained the importance of celebrating 2025 as the Jubilee year with 2024 being the preparatory year. About 50 participants were present for the session. The parishioners of St Ann’s church, Mallapur were celebrating mission Sunday and Fr Suresh OCD said that’s it was an apt time for the Daughters of St Paul to reach out to their parish.

The parishioners were extremely happy to have Sr Magdalene explain to them about the importance of the Jubilee Year and we hope to continue reaching out to those in need in the Jubilee Year 2025.

- Sr Delsey Joseph Pulimoottil fsp




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