“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:22
We will journey through Lent 2025 in the Jubilee Year. Our Lenten journey this year therefore picks up on the Jubilee theme “Pilgrims of Hope”. The letter issued by Pope Francis on the Feast of the Ascension 2024 to help us begin this pilgrimage is Spes non Confundit, hope does not disappoint. Hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us” (Rom 5:1-2.5)
For this reason, through Lent 2025, our Lent Retreat theme is the “fruits of the Spirit”. We experience the fruits of the Spirit in consolation: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness and self-control. For Ignatius consolation was an increase in faith, hope and love. (SE 316). We are invited in the Exercises to revisit consolation often. For this reason, we have invited those involved in our Centres to contribute poems and artwork. We pray that in this Jubilee Year the fruits of the prayer of so many people will renew our hope.
We pray with Pope Francis that the Jubilee is a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the “door” (cf. Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere and to all as “our hope” (1 Tim 1:1).
The table below begins on Ash Wednesday the 5th of March and ends on Easter Sunday the 20th April, 2025.
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 5 March (Day 1) | 6 (Day 2) | 7 (Day 3) | 8 (Day4) | |||
| 9 (Day5) | 10 (Day 6) | 11 (Day 7) | 12 (Day 8) | 13 (Day 9) | 14 (Day 10) | 15 (Day 11) |
| 16 (Day 12) | 17 (Day 13) | 18 (Day 14) | 19 (Day 15) | 20 (Day 16) | 21 (Day 17) | 22 (Day 18) |
| 23 (Day 19) | 24 (Day 20) | 25 (Day 21) | 26 (Day 22) | 27 (Day 23) | 28 (Day 24) | 29 (Day 25) |
| 30 (Day 26) | 31 (Day 27) | 1 April (Day 28) | 2 (Day 29) | 3 (Day 30) | 4 (Day 31) | 5 (Day 32) |
| 6 (Day 33) | 7 (Day 34) | 8 (Day 35) | 9 (Day 36) | 10 (Day 37) | 11 (Day 38) | 12 (Day 39) |
| 13 (Day 40) | 14 (Day 41) | 15 (Day 42) | 16 (Day 43) | 17 (Day 44) | 18 Good Friday | 19 (Day 46) |
| 20 Easter |
