On the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 2024, we began the celebration of the opening of the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025. 
A year on, the Holy Door at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls was closed on December 28 and the Holy Year concluded in all the dioceses throughout the world, including our own. The Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica will close on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, thus concluding the Ordinary Jubilee 2025. We now look forward to the Holy Year of Redemption in 2033, 2,000 years since the death and resurrection of Jesus – if God spares us! 
Each one of us will have our own blessings to count as we come to the end of the Jubilee and begin the calendar year of 2026. Even in the face of difficulties and pain, both personal and global, if we look with eyes of hope we can see blessings rather than losses; we will see once more the Father offering the grace, the gift of his Son, Jesus, who through his life, death and resurrection brings us the freedom of the children of God.
Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the gift of the Father and the Son, we are given the strength and inspiration to continue our journey of hope. We beseech the blessed Trinity to…grant us the faith that moves mountains, the hope that does not disappoint and the love that is patient and kind, because, never separating ourselves from God’s will, we may thank him for his blessings without number. 
May I conclude this reflection with some words of our Holy Father, Pope Leo, from his homily on the Seventh Sunday of Easter (the Jubilee of Families), June 1 2025.

Let me add one last thing. The prayer of the Son of God, which gives us hope on our journey, also reminds us that one day we will all be… one in the one Saviour, embraced by the eternal love of God. Not only us, but also our fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, brothers, sisters and children who have already gone before us into the light of his eternal Pasch, and whose presence we feel here, together with us, in this moment of celebration. 

In blessed hope,

+Terry