Every 25 years the Pope has a Jubilee year. 2025 is a Jubilee year, with the world all its problems the Pope wants it to be a year of Hope.
perspectives of hope
The Power of Hope
https://www.liggywebb.com/the-power-of-hope/
Liggy Webb, is a Cheltenham based consultant specialising in life skills. Liggy has just published an article on ‘The Power of Hope’ which complements our theme of hope for 2025 Jubillee.
Saturday 9th November 2024
A mtg of younger members and their parents of the St Nicholas community was held to listen to ideas of how to include our younger members, below are ideas that can be added to and considered to be actioned for the jubilee year.
Jonathan Wilmer, Good morning everyone,
One of the main topics will be a discussion of the upcoming Jubilee year – once every 25 years- and how we can celebrate it.
Here is a link to the Jubilee page on our diocese website.
It includes some videos which you may wish to watch. One of them is Bishop Bosco with his 10 practical suggestions for the Jubilee.
https://cliftondiocese.com/jubilee
Optimism is our light
To have hope we have to have optimism.
Praying is based on the optimism that you will be listened to and the hope that the outcome you have prayed for happens, we trust if our prayer is answered it’s for the right outcome and reason.
Sunday 20-10-24 looking forward to our jubilee year and listening to your ideas
Saint Nicholas Parish
Jubilee 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope Your Ideas
Here is a selection of ideas already received…….. please mark any that you particularly like:
Parish (and three-parish) activities:
- Pilgrimage (local, national, international)
- Retreat or mission
- Fr Joby to visit each family at home
- An outreach project
- Request a visit from the Bishop
- Jubilee prayer to replace parish prayer
- A three-parish approach to some aspects of Lent (as well as Easter Vigil)
- Activities to be planned to fit in with the liturgical seasons
Spirituality and Catechesis: - First Friday: Adoration followed by Mass rotating through the three parishes. Confession available
- An outside speaker to develop understanding of the Eucharist
- An outside speaker to lead teaching on the four Gospels, one every three months
- Occasional ‘Children’s Mass’: in which the youth in each parish will plan the Liturgy
- Three themes: Eucharist: how the Liturgy is celebrated and why; Formation: deepening understanding of our faith; Witness: drawing out the link between liturgy and everyday life
General: - Jubilee banner to be formally placed by the Sanctuary in each parish at a Jubilee Mass to open the year
- Jubilee candle in each Church (when the Advent/Christmas and Paschal candles are not lit)
- Family jubilee candles
- Parish websites to reflect Jubilee activities in the three parishes and elsewhere
- Develop youth involvement (with help of diocese youth worker)
- Make the Jubilee a ‘Year of Hope’ for all with special attention for children, youth and elderly
- Develop plans for a parish hall
Your thoughts/ideas (Please return by 3rd November)
