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Jubilee 2025
What is a Jubilee?
A Jubilee is a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation. People are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.
How often is a Jubilee year?
A Jubilee Year is celebrated by the Church every 25 years. The 2025 Jubilee Year began on Christmas Eve 2024 and concludes on 6 January 2026.
Is the Jubilee in the Bible?
The word Jubilee comes from the Hebrew word yobel, which is a ram's horn. This wind instrument is blown to mark the start of a Jubilee Year in the Bible (Leviticus 25:9). In the Bible the Jubilee Year occurred every 50 years and involved the cancelling of debts, a period of rest for people and the earth, slaves being granted freedom and land being redistributed.
What does this mean for us?
The Jubilee was launched in schools across the Diocese on Friday 24th January. Our Key Stage 3 pupils tuned in live to the broadcast from the theatre where each school has been asked to make a pledge to help make the world a better and more just place in 2025. We will be looking at ideas for this in the coming weeks and then as a school we will make our commitment on ‘Pledge Day’ together with thousands of others across the globe.
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“The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.” (Luke 4:18-19) |
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus makes clear his own mission is to bring Jubilee. In the synagogue at Nazareth he reads from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, proclaiming the year of the Lord's favour. After reading, Jesus announces:
“Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus shows us what God's Kingdom of justice, compassion and freedom looks like. He invites us to join him in making it a reality.
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