Jubilee 2025
2024: A YEAR OF PRAYER
Pope Francis has declared a Jubilee Year of Hope in 2025. He has also announced a year of prayer in preparation for the Jubilee. The Holy Father announced its launch on 21st January 2024, the fifth annual celebration of the ‘Sunday of the Word of God’. Earlier, the Pope had written: “From now on I am happy to think that the year preceding the Jubilee event, 2024, will be dedicated to a great ‘symphony’ of prayer so as to rediscover the desire to be in the presence of the Lord, to listen to him and adore him."
Recently, the Dicastery for Evangelization issued a prayer resource in Italian. “Teach Us to Pray” is now available online in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
CLICK HERE for Free Downloads of "Teach Us to Pray"
JOIN US FOR A EUCHARISTIC CONSECRATION
Wed., Dec. 4, 2024 - Sun., Jan. 5, 2025
We will use the Dynamic Catholic book, "33 Days to Eucharistic Glory." You can get a discount if you buy in bulk (Click here for the link). Pray it together as a parish, a parish network, or with some friends, but know that others across our Diocese will be joining you in this prayer.
We will begin on Wed, Dec. 4, 2024 and end on Sun., Jan. 5, 2025, the Epiphany. On that day Bishop Edward Scharfenberger will preside at Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to officially open the Jubilee Year in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.
We hope you can join us.
TOOLS FOR THE JOURNEY
RECONCILIATION
The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies ... has willed that his Church continue, in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation. CCC, no. 1421
CLICK HERE to learn more about the beautiful gift of Reconciliation, to access a step-by-step guide, and to hear Fr. Matt Duclos's simple answers to questions that many have if they haven't gone to Confession in some time.
ADORATION
This presence is called "real" - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.
CCC, no. 1374
CLICK HERE to find Adoration sites throughout the Diocese and to learn how Eucharistic Adoration can help to deepen your faith.
THE MASS
The command of Jesus to repeat his actions and words "until he comes" does not only ask us to remember Jesus and what he did. It is directed at the liturgical celebration, by the apostles and their successors, of the memorial of Christ, of his life, of his death, of his Resurrection, and of his intercession in the presence of the Father. CCC, no. 1341
CLICK HERE for "The Power of One Hour", a five-part video series, produced by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, teaching about the Mass.
PRAYER
Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our all... "We must remember God more often than we draw breath.
CCC, no. 2697
CLICK HERE for tools to help you Build Your Prayer Life
FURTHERING YOUR FAITH SERIES
"Faith seeks understanding": it is intrinsic to faith that a believer desires to know better the One in whom he has put his faith and to understand better what He has revealed; a more penetrating knowledge will in turn call forth a greater faith, increasingly set afire by love. CCC, no. 158
CLICK HERE for the Furthering Your Faith YouTube page - Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany
