Jubilee Year 2025-Pilgrims of Hope

 Every 25 years, the Catholic Church holds a Jubilee Year. All members of the global Church family are called to participate in this Holy Year. It is a time to grow in our faith and prayer life. A time too to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation. Key aspects of a Jubilee Year include how we treat one another and how we live out the mission Jesus states in Luke 4:16-21.

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Jubilee Year Launch Day

We made and launched paper boats to mark the beginning of the Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of hope'. We decorated the boats and wrote messages and prayers of hope. During the launch we had some reflection/prayer time thinking about our hopes for the future.

Jubilee Year Launch Day

 

 Jubilee Year Launch Day Assembly

We held an assembly to celebrate the launch day for the Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of hope'. Pope Francis has asked us to celebrate this year with deep faith, lively hope and active charity.

Jubilee Year Launch Day Assembly

 

Centenary Challenges

 

 

To celebrate 100 years of St Joseph’s Church and to coincide with the Jubilee we undertook various 100 challenges. Each of these challenges was an act of Catholic Social Teaching.

The Reception Class made 100 gingerbread men. These were given away to friends and family as an act of kindness.

 

Year 1 undertook 100 acts of kindness.

         

 

Year 2 wrote and hung 100 messages of hope on a school playground tree.

           

 

Year 3 made 100 paper candles containing messages of hope.

 

Year 4 collected 100 items for our local food bank.

 

Based on a famous Japanese story during the time of the Hiroshima bomb, Year 5 made 100 paper cranes for peace.

 

 

Year 6 planted over 100 seeds.

 

 

The Chaplaincy Team collected over 100 pieces of rubbish.