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Jubilee Year 2025

Embrace God's Hope and Extend It to All

A Scripture-Based Study Guide for Exploring Pope Francis’s Jubilee Year 2025 Document Spes Non Confundit

Flowers as a sign of hope.
Introduction: Respond to the Invitation to Embrace God’s Hope

God wants to renew our hope and help us put our faith and hope into action.

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Overview: How to Use This Study Guide

Suggestions for individuals, small group members, and small group leaders.

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A Note About Our Terminology

What do we mean when we refer to a “part of a paragraph”?

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Session 1: Why we can have hope

We find hope because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through Jesus.

(Read paragraphs 1-4)
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Session 2: The Jubilee leads us on a journey of hope

The Jubilee Year invites us to encounter Jesus, who is our hope.

(Read paragraphs 1, 5, and 6)
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Session 3: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 1

Peace and war; welcoming children; prisoners.

(Read paragraphs 7-10)
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Session 4: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 2

The sick; the young; migrants and refugees; the elderly.

(Read paragraphs 11-14)
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Session 5: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 3, and broader appeals for hope

The poor; the goods of the earth, debt, economic priorities; synodality.

(Read paragraphs 15-17)
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Session 6: A life anchored in hope, part 1

Faith, charity, and hope; life everlasting; death; happiness.

(Read paragraphs 18-21)
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Session 7: A life anchored in hope, part 2

God’s judgment; indulgence and Penance; the Mother of God; hope as an anchor.

(Read paragraphs 22-25)
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Bibliography

Sources used in this study of Spes Non Confundit.

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