2025 has been declared a year of Jubilee. For Jews, the year of Jubilee is celebrated once in 50 years, following seven cycles of seven sabbatical, years. It is a […]
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2025 Has Been Called the Year of Jubilee
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Eugene / January 1, 2025 /
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2025 has been declared a year of Jubilee.
For Jews, the year of Jubilee is celebrated once in 50 years, following seven cycles of seven sabbatical, years. It is a year when no agricultural work is to be done and the land is allowed to rest.
Leviticus 25:9-10 details it even more saying, “
Then shall you cause the shofar to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom Kippur shall you sound the shofar throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you.”
This verse of Jubilee is also inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
The Catholics have also declared the year 2025 as the year of Jubilee, the last one being celebrated in the year 2000. 2025 is “Spes non confundit” (Latin for “Hope does not disappoint” also called ‘Pilgrims of Hope.’)
Believers are encouraged to repent of their sins, forgive the sins of others, and to renew a focus on their walk with Christ. In the Hebrew tradition, as recorded in Leviticus, a Jubilee was celebrated every 50 years with the freeing of slaves and the forgiveness of debts.