Jubilee 2025 Launch Day
On Friday 24th January, the Jubilee year 2025 officially launched. We celebrated this special event by completing activities in class.
Year 3 - Focus on the Jubilee Mascot Luce
Year 4 - Focus on the Jubilee symbol
Year 5 - Focus on the Jubilee Icon
Year 6 - How do we live as pilgrims of hope?
As well as completing activities in their books, the children completed a piece of artwork which is now displayed in the classrooms in celebration of this special event.
Prayer Room Artwork
While the children were completing their activities to celebrate the launch of the Jubilee year, Mrs O'Mullane worked with small groups of children from each class to create beautiful pieces of artwork resembling stain glass windows to display in our prayer room. The stain glass windows represented the focus each year group had in their classes. All of the children also created smaller versions of these images to display in their own classrooms.
Meet Luce: The Official Mascot of the 2025 Jubilee
Luce, the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, is a young girl with blue hair, wearing a yellow raincoat, green rubber boots and carrying a pilgrim’s staff. She represents a Catholic pilgrim on a journey of faith. Her yellow raincoat symbolises the Vatican flag and the strength to journey through life’s challenges, while her mud-stained boots reflect the long, difficult road of a pilgrim. Luce’s eyes, shaped like scallop shells, are a symbol of hope and Catholic pilgrimage. She wears a World Mission rosary and is accompanied by her dog, Santino, and friends Fe, Xin and Sky. Through Luce, we are reminded of the hope and faith that guide us on our own spiritual journeys.
Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope
In celebration of the beginning of our special Jubilee year, the children created beautiful pieces of artwork for our 'Holy Doors' display for the front entrance of the school. Each year group was given a theme and scripture which represented that theme to base their artwork on.
Year 3 - Forgiveness
Year 4 - Love
Year 5 - Hope
Year 6 - Mercy
Be a pilgrim with us in the Church Year of Jubilee!
Pope Francis has decreed that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, a holy year which happens every 25 years in the Catholic Church.
In a world that is growing more unjust and unequal, we ask our whole school community to experience the joy and strength in coming together as we respond to God’s call for a reset, a renewal of faith and a recommitment to a just world.
The Jubilee prayer
Father in heaven,
may the faith you have given us
in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,
and the flame of charity enkindled
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
reawaken in us the blessed hope
for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us
into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos
in the sure expectation
of a new heaven and a new earth,
when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,
your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee
reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread
the joy and peace of our Redeemer
throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed,
be glory and praise for ever.
Amen.
Official prayer from Pope Francis for the Jubilee year 2025, "Pilgrims of hope"