“Now the time has come for a new Jubilee, to open wide the Holy Door once more and offer the living experience of God’s love, which arouses in the heart the certain hope of salvation in Christ.” Pope Francis

What is a jubilee and which jubilee is opening this year 2025? All this information can be found on the website :https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en.html 

What I want to reflect with you, dear friend, is the subject of hope. Have you ever thought about what you hope for? What are your expectations in this life? What are your deepest desires, the most permanent ones, those that do not pass with time?

Perhaps you have been tempted by discouragement, and pessimism, perhaps doubts and fears have arisen in you in the face of a future that seems uncertain, especially in this time of fast-paced changes where it seems that nothing stands still.

Francis is well aware of this reality, and yet he once again calls this Jubilee as an invitation to kindle a hope that seems to be fading:

“May the Jubilee be for everyone an occasion to rekindle hope… hope will not be let down, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Rom 5:1-2.5)… May it be for everyone a moment of living and personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, ‘the door of salvation’…’our hope’. 

Human hopes can disappoint you, but whoever hopes in the Almighty will never be disappointed. 

The spiritual proposal of the way of the heart wants to give you tools so that you can make this experience your own in your life, and so that your stable trust in the Lord is not something theoretical.

“Jesus, through his words, gestures, and way of proceeding, consoled many people. He gave them hope, helped them to believe and to recover their faith. If you would carefully and courageously examine the course and rhythm of your own life, and decide to collaborate so that others may live better, you would realize how much you could help in the happiness of others.  

In times of trial we must ask for the grace to persevere, which will not always be to solve the problem by our own hands, but many times it will be to continue walking openly, trusting, hoping that the Lord will do his work with our availability. For in the end, it is a matter of insisting, starting again and continuing, repeating the cycle over and over again.” ECC 7

I encourage you to continue to follow the different steps of the Way of the Heart, the practice of rereading God’s work in your life, and you will see that hope will be your anchor and your compass. May this news be your joy today.

International Editorial Team

Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network