We’ve just said farewell to the Year of Jubilee 2025 and we have begun 2026, mostly untouched and unwritten. There is something sacred about this moment, not unlike the afterglow that lingers when the sun has set, that peculiar light that remains even after its source has disappeared below the horizon.
Led by parish priest Fr Michael Musyoka Kyumu, parishioners from the seaside parish of Brighton walked from Sacred Heart College chapel at Somerton Park to St Joseph’s Church to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee Year. Rainy conditions on November 22 didn’t dampen participants’ enthusiasm as they recited the Rosary on their journey.
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St Joseph’s Church in Penola was the destination for 100 pilgrims who joined Archbishop Patrick O’Regan for the second pilgrimage Mass for the Year of the Jubilee on Saturday August 23.
When Adelaide Hills parishioners Deb and Des Stapleton decided to embark on a 100km walk from Lucca to Sienna in Italy, they were inspired by the prospect of being ‘pilgrims of hope’ in line with the theme of the Jubilee Year.
St Aloysius Church at Sevenhill was the ultimate destination for 250 pilgrims who joined Archbishop Patrick O’Regan for the first of a series of visits to sacred sites in South Australia as part of the Jubilee year.
As the Church celebrated the Jubilee of Sport on Trinity Sunday, Pope Leo XIV, a keen tennis player, spoke of three aspects of sport that make it “a precious means of human and Christian formation”.
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