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In preparation for the 2025 “Pilgrims of Hope” Jubilee, Pope Francis has designated 2024 as a Year of Prayer, beginning this Advent.

During this year, we are encouraged to deepen our commitment to prayer and to accompany others in their own prayer life, as well as going back to basics to reflect on how and why we pray.

The year will have a special focus on the Our Father. Here in the Diocese of Salford, we are celebrating the start of this Year of Prayer by bringing different areas of the diocese together in prayer, using the words Jesus Himself taught us.

Watch the video below to pray along with us now:

How to get involved

As we begin together this Year of Prayer, there are plenty of ways you can get involved in your parishes, schools, and at home.

Need some ideas? Take a look at some of the ideas below to help you on your way and don’t forget to keep us updated on your activities by emailing communications@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

  • Begin a parish or deanery prayer group
  • Give particular focus to The Lord’s Prayer during Mass by singing the Our Father
  • Consinder introducing special opportunities for prayer, such as a Quarant’ore, a Holy Hour, or Nightfever
  • Organise a Walk for Creation prayer walk in your parish. Click here to download your copy.

  • Ask your parish priest if you could hold a regular prayer service in your parish during the Year of Prayer
  • Organise a Walk for Creation in your school grounds. Click here for primary or here for secondary.
  • Pray the Rosary as a school community, with each class praying a different decade
  • Learn a sung or signed version of The Lord’s Prayer
  • Create a Board of Hope: Ask pupils in your school to draw or write about what their hopes are for the future and put these on display to pray over during the Year of Prayer.

  • Place your Bible, Book of Psalms, Book of Gospels, or Prayer Book in a prominent place at home
  • Begin or increase prayer time as a family, especially at the start and end of the day and before meal times
  • Give each person in your family a day where they choose who or what the family will pray for that day
  • Embracing the theme of hope, ask people in your family what they have been grateful for that week and what their hopes are for the coming week.
  • Embark on a scripture challenge: Set aside a period of time (a week, nine days, two weeks, or a month) to read and reflect on a passage of scripture each day. Open your Bible at a random page and read a passage that draws your eye. Take time to reflect on the passage, read again, and reflect once more. Write down your thoughts in a reflection diary and reflect on the key themes and thoughts at the end of that period of time.

Further Resources

For further resources to support you during this Year of Prayer, please explore the drop down list below:

We’re responding to Pope Francis’ invitation to reacquaint ourselves with The Lord’s Prayer through a series of short reflections.

Join clergy, religious, and lay people from across the diocese as we unpick this all-familiar prayer to discover it anew in this Year of Prayer.

Watch the video below to begin our playlist.

Our diocesan Youth and Young Adults Ministry team is responding to Pope Francis’ invitation to join him in a Year of Prayer – in preparation for the 2025 Pilgrims of Hope Jubilee – by exploring different types of prayer.

Each week, we will be exploring a different way of praying – from Adoration and Traditional Prayers, to praying with the scriptures or praying with creation.

Our wonderful Cathedral Choir are marking this Year of Prayer by praying the Our Father through song. Please click the links below to explore some of their recordings of beautiful settings of The Lord’s Prayer:

Pater Noster (chant)

Our Father – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Oratio Dominica: Pater Noster – Tamsin Jones

Schools Singing Programme

Schools across the diocese are also being invited to celebrate this Year of Prayer in a musical way be learning a wonderful new setting of the Our Father, specially composed for this Year of Prayer by our Cathedral Director of Music, Alex Patterson.

Find out more about the new setting and download the score by clicking here and watch a recording in the video below:

 

 

As part of the Year of Prayer in Preparation for Jubilee 2025, the Dicastery for Evangelisation has published this new guide. In ten short sections it presents some practical suggestions for prayer in different places and circumstances, e.g. parish community; family; young people; retreats.
The English version of the document can be viewed and downloaded at:
ENG_Sulla-preghiera-A5-76P-SITO.pdf (iubilaeum2025.va)