Coming Soon: Traveling with Pilgrims of Hope

A new video series for the Jubilee Year 2025

Hosted by Fr. Ron Will, C.PP.S.

Declaring 2025 a Jubilee Year with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope,” Pope Francis said:

“Hope calls us to become pilgrims in search of truth, dreamers who never tire, women and men open to being challenged by God’s dream, which is of a new world where peace and justice reign.”

We hear a lot of people say that they are not very hopeful about 2025. At Precious Blood Renewal Center, we prefer to listen to the voice of Pope Francis. How about you?

We invite you to listen with Fr. Ron to the voices of individuals who have found hope during very dark situations. What can we learn from them that we can apply to ourselves?

Each month through this Jubilee Year, Fr. Ron will interview individuals about how they keep moving forward with hope in difficult situations.

The world can seem to be filled with much sorrow and suffering, but it is in the here and now where Jesus comes to be with us. In this Jubilee year, God invites us to stop and reflect on what we hold in our hearts. Are we looking and reflecting on the ways Jesus is in our midst? Are we listening for the challenge to love with abandon? Are we softening our hearts to the call of Jesus, even if it is inconvenient and asks a lot of us?

We don’t know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.

Please check our Precious Blood Renewal Center website for a new episode during the last week of each month.

Full quote from Pope Francis’ homily opening the Jubilee Year:

With haste, then, let us set out to behold the Lord who is born for us, our hearts joyful and attentive, ready to meet him and then to bring hope to the way we live our daily lives. And this is our task: to bring hope into the different situations of life. For Christian hope is not a cinematic “happy ending” which we passively await, but rather, a promise, the Lord’s promise, to be welcomed here and now in our world of suffering and sighs. It is a summons not to tarry, to be kept back by our old habits, or to wallow in mediocrity or laziness. Hope calls us – as Saint Augustine would say – to be upset with things that are wrong and to find the courage to change them. Hope calls us to become pilgrims in search of truth, dreamers who never tire, women and men open to being challenged by God’s dream, which is of a new world where peace and justice reign.

— From the homily of Pope Francis during the Mass for the opening of the holy door and beginning of the Jubilee Year 2025, Pilgrims of Hope, Dec. 25, 2024.

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