Prayer
Year of Jubilee
Life is a journey and in this Jubilee Year, let us travel together with St Mary MacKillop, full of hope for our struggling world. Pope Francis has expressed many times, and we know it, that we are currently living in a world that needs hope.
We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire; that is why I have chosen as the motto of the Jubilee, Pilgrims of Hope.
Lenten Prayer
God of our journeywe are all pilgrims of hopebrought together by your loveand your wish that we may all be one.
We pray that in this Year of Jubileewhen we are called to greater justiceand care for our common homethat we may Unite Against Poverty.
May we work in unity for the freedom of the oppressed
and the renewal of creation.
May our compassionate minds and generous heartshelp bring about a world where all can live in peace.
May our Lenten pilgrimage of fasting, almsgiving and prayer
bring us closer to your loving heart.
We ask this in the name of Jesus.
Amen