Jubilee Year of Hope
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About the Jubilee Year of HopePope Francis in 2022 declared that 2025 would be the Jubilee Year of Hope (the 2,025th anniversary of the Incarnation of our Lord). It officially began on December 24, 2024 with the great tradition of opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Francis.
More information can be found at the bottom of the page or at www.usccb.org/jubilee2025.
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Pilgrims of Hope for Creation
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Saturday, October 4 | Noon - 5:30 PM | Catholic Ecology Center (Neosho, WI)Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation are an expression of faith, uplifting the call for every person to care for our common home by walking to places in nature during the Season of Creation (September 1 - October 4). 2025 is a monumental year for Catholics as we celebrate the Jubilee Year of Hope, the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' Laudato Si', and the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures.To mark this holy season, Lumen Christi will be joining with other pilgrims around the world seeking to restore right relationship with God, with Creation, and with one another. This pilgrimage is an opportunity to deepen our faith and care for God’s creation as a parish community through meaningful prayer, reflection, and engaging activities at the Catholic Ecology Center.With all of our parishioners’ generous donations, we are able to offer this ministry as a free event to the entire parish community. Thank you!
Click here to sign up!
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Schedule
- 11:45 AM: Check In
- Noon: Depart for Catholic Ecology Center (CEC)
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Create your own adventure: with personal reflection, Activities, nature hikes & a variety of prayer opportunities for Pilgrims around the CEC
- 3:30 PM: Depart from CEC
- 4:30 PM: Mass at Holy Hill (optional)
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Who is this for?EVERYONE! This pilgrimage is designed to engage everyone - individuals and families. Adults of all ages, teens, and families with young children. Please note: children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
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Travel OptionsBUS: We hope to have enough interest in renting a bus for the day which will cost $10/person with $30 max per family. The bus WILL include 4:30pm Mass at Holy Hill. Please indicate in your registration if you would like to take a bus. We will decide by September 15th if there is enough interest for the bus, and collect money after that decision.
CARPOOL: We are encouraging carpooling for those who do not wish to ride a bus (or in the event the bus does not work out). We appreciate volunteers to be drivers and will do our best to connect people who are willing to drive with those who need a ride.
INDEPENDENT: For families or those who need more flexibility with their timing, driving yourself (& your family) is a welcomed option.
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Contact Us
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Catherine Zirngiblzirngiblclumenchristiparish.orgPastoral Associate -
Meaghan Turnerturnermlumenchristiparish.orgDirector of Catholic Formation
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About the Jubilee Year of Hope
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What is a Jubilee Year?
A Jubilee Year happens every 25 years. Former Archbishop Lisetcki recently described it as such:
2025 marks a celebration occurring only every 25 years: an Ordinary Jubilee Year. Jubilee years carry a rich tradition in which the people of Israel, freed from slavery, proclaimed liberty to captives and forgiveness to debtors. People returned to their homeland and renewed their trust in God by relying solely on what He provided.
He also shared in his letter the areas that we will renew our hope during 2025 in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee:
Hope in God’s mercy. Return to and avail yourself often of the essential sacrament of Reconciliation. Churches across the archdiocese will be open and ready to welcome you back on April 9. This will also be a day of reparation and fasting...
...Hope in Jesus’ Great Commission that we evangelize. May this year be when we courageously invite our loved ones, friends, and strangers to the joy and beauty present every Sunday in the Eucharist. Let us love others by inviting them to God’s greatest gift on this side of heaven.
Hope in our marital relationships in the Church. Our parishes will have open arms to those who wish to discuss a previous marriage and a possible annulment. And those who married outside the Church for whatever reason are warmly invited to discuss celebrating the sacrament of Marriage within the Church.
Hope in our relationship with those who are struggling. I ask us to turn our attention to those laboring in prisons especially. These brothers and sisters suffer silently. We will encourage all to create human connections with those we may not know.
Credit: The Archdiocese of Milwaukee
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The Jubilee Prayer
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.
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