Nairobi, 06 February, 2024 / 6:39 pm (ACI Africa).
The Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya has encouraged women and men Religious to seek “the deeper meaning” of their respective Charisms and live them in preparation for the Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year.
Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year on January 21, the second in his Pontificate after the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy in 2015.
In his Angelus address, the Holy Father said that the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year is to be “a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in one’s personal life, in the life of the Church, and in the world.”
“Dear brothers and sisters, the coming months will lead us to the opening of the Holy Door, with which we will begin the jubilee,” Pope Francis said from the window of the Apostolic Palace on January 21, and added, “I ask you to intensify your prayer to prepare us to live this event of grace well and to experience the power of God’s hope. That is why today we begin a Year of Prayer.”
In his February 3 homily at Holy Mass for women and men Religious serving in his Metropolitan See in celebration of the annual World Day for Consecrated Life (WDCL), Archbishop Philip Subira Anyolo said, “As we look forward to the Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, let us see it as a time for renewal and celebration of God’s presence in our midst.”