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As you may know, the Holy Father, Pope Francis has appointed 2025 to be a Holy Year, a Jubilee Year, when - based on the ancient Old Testament practice of Jubilees every 50 years - the Church celebrates a Jubilee every 25 years, or else on extraordinary occasions, such as in 2016, when the Holy Father called for a Year of Mercy, outside of the 25 and 50 year customs. The goal of a Jubilee from the Scriptures was a renewal of devotion and faithfulness to God and His Covenant, the forgiveness of sins and the cancelation of debt. You may remember the latter from the Jubilee for the Millennium in 2000. It will be important for us as a parish to mark the Holy Year, and I would principally want this to be a year of spiritual renewal for each of us through three basic and yet significant commitments:

1. Prayer every day
2. Mass every week
3. Confession every month

To pray at least once a day - but everyday, no matter how briefly; to attend Mass every week despite how busy our family and work commitments might be; to make a good Confession of our sins every month - these three simple steps could radically transform our parish, if we each made the decision to take up these three spiritual responsibilities beginning 1 January, 2025

To that end, I will share with the parish some more information in the coming weeks in the lead up to the New Year that to mark the beginning of the Holy Year, we will have Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on New Year’s Eve and Mass on New Year’s Day, when I will invite parishioners to sign up to this spiritual covenant to make 2025 a truly Holy Year. Please consider whether you might commit to these three steps to sanctifying 2025 and to help the conversion of our parish.