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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
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.

Overview: How to Use This Study Guide

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

A Note on Terminology

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

Session 1: What is hope

Paragraphs 1-4: We find hope because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through Jesus.

Session 2: The Jubilee leads us on a journey of hope

Paragraphs 1 (cont.) and 5-6: The Jubilee Year invites us to encounter Jesus, who is our hope.

Session 3: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 1

Paragraphs 7-10: Peace and war; welcoming children; prisoners.

Session 4: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 2

Paragraphs 11-14: The sick; the young; migrants and refugees; the elderly.

Session 5: Where signs of hope are needed today, part 3, and broader appeals for hope

Paragraphs 15-17: The poor; the goods of the earth, debt, economic priorities; synodality.

Session 6: A life anchored in hope, part 1

Paragraphs 18-21: Faith, charity, and hope; life everlasting; death; happiness.

Session 7: A life anchored in hope, part 2

Paragraphs 22-25: God’s judgment; indulgence and Penance; the Mother of God; hope as an anchor.

Bibliography

Sources used in this study of Spes Non Confundit.

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