Lenten Reflection Guide: A Jubilee of Hope
The guide, inspired by the 2025 Jubilee Year campaign for debt relief, offers reflections, small group questions, prayers, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading. Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 5.
“In this Holy Year one communal action we are all called to participate in is restoration of the ecological balance of the planet, which has been rendered askew by the industrial practices of the last two centuries. To a certain extent these practices have resulted in tremendous material progress, not only in the developed countries but even in formerly very poor countries. Poverty and hunger have been greatly reduced, millions of children are being educated, maternal and infant mortality have seen huge improvements, and international norms, policies and structures exist to try to prevent war – although these are not always followed. However, this progress has a serious shadow side, such as the threat of run-away global warming and climate change, as well as the harmful effects of the extraction of essential metals and the labor to do the extraction. Restoration and restitution are needed.” – Maryknoll Father Frank Breen, MM
Download the guide from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns website: https://mogc.info/Lent2025