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Praying Hands

Year of Prayer 2024 & Jubilee Year 2025

In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of Hope', 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis, starting this Advent.

 

There is a particular focus on the Our Father, which presents us with a great opportunity to go back to the very basics of prayer. So this week, let us re-focus on the Our Father, and say the prayer slowly, making a special effort to attend to the words, and notice if a word, phrase, or line strikes you and remains in your heart.

 

This year, we are invited as Catholics to have a deeper, prayerful encounter with Jesus; to go deeper in our commitment to pray, and to consider how we might share this with others. 

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Over the coming weeks and months, we will provide suggestions and resources on how you might begin to do that.

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Our Father, 
Who art in Heaven, 
hallowed be Thy name; 
Thy Kingdom come, 
Thy will be done 
on earth as it is in Heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread; 
and forgive us our trespasses 
as we forgive those who trespass against us; 
and lead us not into temptation, 
but deliver us from evil. 
Amen.

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Ein Tad,
yr hwn wyt yn y nefoedd,
Sancteiddier dy enw,
Deled dy deymas,
Gwneler dy ewyllys, megis yn y nef,
Felly ar y ddaear hefyd.
Dyro i ni heddiw ein bara beunyddiol,
A maddau i ni dyledion,
Fel y maddeuwn ninnau i’n dyledwyr.
Ac nac arwain ni i brofedigaeth,
Eithr gwared ni rhag drwg.
Amen

2025 Jubilee Year 

The official Jubilee website states: After the year devoted to reflecting on the documents and studying the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis has proposed that 2024 should be marked as a year dedicated to prayer. In preparation for the Jubilee, dioceses are invited to promote initiatives to remind people of the centrality of both individual prayer and community prayer.

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