Pilgrims Of Hope: Biblical and Spiritual Foundations For the Holy Year

Description

The Church’s “Holy Year Jubilee” has always been looked forward to with anticipation by the Catholic world. The theme the Church offers us for making the upcoming 2025 Holy Year a Jubilee to cherish for long is: Pilgrims of Hope. It is the sentiment of hope and everything associated with it that this book so simply highlights. It does so by offering people and pastors alike relevant essentials of a Biblical Spirituality that encompasses the entire gamut of the Old and the New Testaments that can never fail to broaden the horizons of our mind. Appropriately,
the text includes ‘tasty’ selections from Pope Francis and others, giving flesh to Alexander Pope’s assertion: “Hope arises eternal in the human breast.” Indeed, Pope Francis wants the Jubilee
Year 2025 to help the Church universal to rediscover this hope in depth!

Addressed to believers and to all people of goodwill, the text emphasizes the importance of a deeper spiritual reflection on God’s will for our daily lives through concrete actions of compassion, forgiveness, and solidarity. This it does by effectively bringing out the very essence of a Christian’s earthly pilgrimage: the communal dimension of the Church that has us proceed united towards a better future rooted in hope, mercy, and fraternity, a continuous journey in search of God and His salvation, the common good as our ultimate goal.