The Jubilee Spirit

The Jubilee Spirit

Areas of focus for the Jubilee and related articles from HORIZON, VISION, and other sources


Living the Jubilee spirit includes focusing on these urgent areas: 

  • Forgiveness
  • Prayer/ Faith
  • Peace 
  • Care for creation 
  • Poverty 
  • Refugees/ Migration
  • Modern slavery/ Human trafficking
  • Debt/ Debt forgiveness

 

Forgiveness/Mercy

HORIZON

How mercy connects to vocation
By Brother Jonathan Beebe C.S.C., Sister Camille D’Arienzo R.S.M., Sister Michelle Lesher S.S.J., and Brother William Sprauer O.S.B.
https://nrvc.net/440/publication/4977/article/10121-how-mercy-connects-to-vocation

“Reconciliation within and among religious communities,” by Sister Margaret Elleta Guider, O.S.F.
https://nrvc.net/publication/5005/article/1914

“Practicing forgiveness in vocation ministry,” by Sister Virginia Herbers, A.S.C.J.
https://nrvc.net/publication/5005/article/24028

Vocation ministers can follow St. Paul’s path toward reconciliation
By Sister Kathryn J. Hermes F.S.P
https://nrvc.net/publication/5005/article/1803-vocation-ministers-can-follow-st-paul-s-path-toward-reconciliation

Vocation ministers as ambassadors for Christ: a reconciling presence
By Cardinal Joseph Tobin C.S.S.R.
https://nrvc.net/452/publication/5005/article/1801-vocation-ministers-as-ambassadors-for-christ-a-reconciling-presence

VISION

Heaping helpings of mercy
By Alice Camille
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/592-heaping-helpings-of-mercy

Accept the gift of forgiveness
By Father Britto M. Berchmans and Caroline Hopkinson
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/330-accept-the-gift-of-forgiveness

Back in God's embrace: How to make a good Confession
By Patrice J. Tuohy
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/252-how-to-make-a-good-confession

 

Hope

HORIZON

Reason for our hope: a testimony to our life, death, and resurrection in Christ Jesus
By Sister Addie Lorraine Walker S.S.N.D.
https://nrvc.net/433/publication/4946/article/23511-reason-for-our-hope-a-testimony-to-our-life-death-and-resurrection-in-christ-jesus

Feed your spirit: Receiving the adjacent possible
By Sister Margo Ritchie C.S.J.
https://nrvc.net/433/publication/4946/article/24788-feed-your-spirit-receiving-the-adjacent-possible

What gives me hope
By Jennifer Gordon S.C.L. and Mary Catharine Perry O.P.
https://nrvc.net/publication/4946/article/4224-what-gives-me-hope

Hope in an anxious age
By Sr. Doris Gottemoeller R.S.M.
Hope in an anxious age
https://nrvc.net/publication/4946/article/2273-hope-in-an-anxious-age

Hope begins where hope begins
By Michael Downey
https://nrvc.net/publication/4946/article/3992-hope-begins-where-hope-begins

 

Prayer

VATICAN JUBILEE 2025 WEBSITE

https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/segni-del-giubileo/preghiera.html

VISION

A user’s guide on the ways to pray
By Linus Mundy
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/254-a-user-s-guide-on-the-ways-to-pray

Art: A way into prayer
By Sister Penelope Martin, O.C.D.
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/437-art-a-way-into-prayer

5 ways to better prayer
By Sister Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/602-5-ways-to-better-prayer

Pray always
By Father Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I.
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/316-pray-always

8 questions and answers to your prayers
By Carol Schuck Scheiber, drawn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/685-8-questions-and-answers-to-your-prayers

Full of grace: Reclaiming the Rosary
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/227

 

Profession of Faith

VATICAN JUBILEE 2025 WEBSITE

Profession of Faith
https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/segni-del-giubileo/professione-di-fede.html

VISION

A Creed to believe in
By Patrice J. Tuohy
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/344-a-creed-to-believe-in

10 Great things about being Catholic
By Alice Camille
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/16-ten-great-things-about-being-catholic

 

Care for creation

BISHOPS CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Laws in creation care
https://www.cbcew.org.uk/jubilee-and-gleaning-laws-in-our-creation-care/

HORIZON

Vocation ministry in a connected, ecologically fragile world
By Brother David Andrews, C.S.C.
https://nrvc.net/publication/5016/article/2316

VISION

What Pope Francis wants you to know about the environment
By Carol Schuck Scheiber
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/619-what-pope-francis-wants-you-to-know-about-the-environment

Vocation takes cultivation
By Sister Elizabeth Wagner
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/594-vocation-takes-cultivation

Rural religious take to the highways and byways
By Carol Schuck Scheiber
https://vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/670-rural-religious-take-to-the-highways-and-byways



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