2025 Jubilee Year - “Pilgrims of Hope”

Welcome to 2025!

2025 is a Jubilee Year in the Catholic Church. A Jubilee Year is celebrated every 25 years as a time to reflect on our faith and focus on our spiritual life. This year, we have been invited by Pope Francis to become ‘Pilgrims of Hope,” - to embark on a journey filled with hope that is felt by us, recognised by others and spreads throughout our world. 

The Jubilee 2025 logo

The most striking part of the logo for this jubilee is the cross: bending towards

humanity and forming an anchor, it depicts the cross as something to cling to, especially in rough seas. It is a contemporary ‘riff’ on an old biblical image. The letter to the Hebrews describes the hope we have in Jesus as ‘an anchor of the soul, as sure as it is firm’ (6:19). The cross is not a dead symbol from the past. It is a living sign of God’s unfathomable love, and one that carries us together in pilgrimage towards heaven. The word ‘Jubilee’ comes from the Hebrew word for a ram’s horn, which was blown to announce the start of a Jubilee year in the Bible. The Logo shows four stylized figures to indicate all of humanity from the four corners of the earth. They are each embracing another, indicating the solidarity and brotherhood that must unite peoples. It should be noted that the first figure is clinging to the cross. The underlying waves are choppy to indicate that the pilgrimage of life is not always on calm waters. Oftentimes personal circumstances and world events call for a greater sense of hope. It should be noted that the image shows how the pilgrim's journey is not individual, but rather communal.

Let us embrace this special Jubilee Year as Pilgrims of Hope.

Opening School Year Mass

This morning we celebrated our Opening School Year Mass focusing on the theme of, “Pilgrims of Hope.”

Directly following the Mass we commissioned our 2025 School and Vice Captains had a special blessing for our new Kinder students. Thank you to those parents who were able to attend.

First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion 

A note was sent out via compass to our Year 3 parents to advise of the enrolment processes for the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. Please enrol as soon as possible using the QR code provided on the form. 

Dates for Workshops

Upcoming Masses

Thursday 20 February GRADE PARISH MASS: Yr 6 and 1 (9am)

Wednesday 5 March WHOLE SCHOOL ASH WEDNESDAY MASS 11:30 am

Thursday 20 March GRADE PARISH MASS: 2,3,4 (9am) 

Thursday 27 March GRADE PARISH MASS: Yr 5 and Kinder (9am) 

Thursday 10 April WHOLE SCHOOL HOLY WEEK Liturgy (Time to be advised)

In Peace,

Mrs Debbie Turton 
Religious Education Coordinator