A JUBILEE PRAYER BASED ON SCRIPTURE AND THE POPE FRANCIS BULL OF INDICTION OF THE ORDINARY JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2025
By Fr Emil Milat
Heavenly Father
Thank you for this Sacred Jubilee Year of Hope. A time of greater intensity in the life of Grace where liberation is proclaimed according to your Word Jesus. (Leviticus 25:1-22). Where you command we return to our ancestral property. Jesus became incarnate to raise this grace (Isaiah 61:1-3), to the level of Spirit, so we can all return not to a physical inheritance but our true homeland- that life of grace as Sons and Daughters of God. The life lost by Adam and Eve in the ancient Garden. We pray for this return.
Thank you for this year of rest (Matt 11:28-30), Jesus said come to me all you who are burdened, we ask for a year of rest. The Jubilee multiplies past prayers, where the prayers sown in the field of grace can produce abundance for the next two years (or more). We ask that the prayers of our Holy Catholic Church in the Eucharistic become an outpouring of Grace for this year and next. A flood drawing and sweeping us in the Ark of Peter to a full return into the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We repent of our debts of sin- where we have exploited others or neglected our own inner life with the Holy Spirit. We forgive anyone who is debt to us.
As the Holy Door was opened in Rome, by the Pope who has the keys of Peter, may our wills open to the Holy Door of your Divine Will being done on earth as in heaven, by the Redemptive merits of Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross; which this Jubilee recalls. For Jesus is the true “door” (Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation. We were reconciled to God through his death and saved by his life” (Rom 5:19).
As we set out on a deeper Pilgrimage of faith this year. We have already crossed the threshold of two millennia from the birth of Jesus Christ in the year 2000, and received the grace of mercy from the Extraordinary Jubilee in 2016. Now in this new Jubilee, may this Holy Year guide our steps towards the 2033 anniversary of the redemption won by the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
The Jubilee is a new freedom from slavery, may we be free from worldly strongholds that keep our eyes on empty desires. May this 1700 anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (which preserved the Church’s unity, in proclaiming the full divinity of Jesus Christ and his consubstantiality with you His the Father) release a new encounter with the divinity of Christ.
Finally may the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumph in a deeper way, as she brings to birth a deeper fullness in the Body of Christ through the Holy Spirit. We unite with all the Rosaries and prayer in the Marian shrines this year.
Maybe we experience a harbinger of new heavens and a new earth (cf. 2 Pet 3:13), where men and women will dwell in justice and harmony, in joyful expectation of the fulfilment of the Lord’s promises. Let us even now be drawn to this hope! May the way we live our lives say to others: “Hope in the Lord! Hold firm, take heart and hope in the Lord!” (Ps 27:14).
