Live “your Charisms” in 2025 Jubilee Year Preparation: Kenyan Archbishop to Consecrated

The Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year provides an opportunity to “deepen our commitment to our unique charisms,” Archbishop Anyolo told the women and men Religious, and invited each of them “to actively engage in the journey towards the next year’s Jubilee by living your charisms.”

“Go back and find the deeper meaning of these charisms; reflect on them, and impart them in your lives right from the community levels,” the Kenyan Catholic Archbishop emphasized during the event celebrated at Holy Family Minor Basilica of his Metropolitan See.

Pope St. John Paul II instituted the World Day for Consecrated Life in 1997 as an annual observance to be marked on February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. For 2024, the event that brings together members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) was organized under the theme, "Pilgrims of Hope on the Path of Peace".

In his February 3 homily, the Local Ordinary of Nairobi Archdiocese since November 2021 urged the women and men Religious in his Metropolitan See to take advantage of the preparation for the Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year as “a living experience of grace, renewal, and commitment.”

He acknowledged with appreciation the collaborative spirit among the people of God under his pastoral care, saying, “We have been blessed with a vivid communion and collaboration among the consecrated persons and the Diocesan Clergy and the laity. This unity stands as a statement to a wonderful experience we have shared in life and ministry as Consecrated persons.”

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The unity in the Metropolitan See of Nairobi, he said, has contributed to the “Church’s broader mission to evangelize, to educate and to actively engage believers in the richness of Christ in Christian life.”

“Let us pray for all vocations; vocations to all Congregations, Diocesan order, and to the family life that they may be strengthened,” the 67-year-old Kenyan Catholic Archbishop, who started his Episcopal Ministry in February 1996 as the Local Ordinary of Kenya’s Kericho Diocese added.

“As we mark this WDCL, let us carry forward this spirit of gratitude and unity continuing to nurture the seed of faith, hope, love, and an extension of peace and above all reconciliation in our communities,” he further said.

Archbishop Anyolo urged women and men Religious to draw inspiration from the readings of the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, particularly from the prophecies of Simeon and Anna and their “recognition of Jesus Christ”.

“We find profound insights that can guide and inspire us on our spiritual journey,” he said during the February 3 Holy Mass that had the Auxiliary of Nairobi, Bishop David Kamau, Archbishop emeritus of Nairobi, John Cardinal Njue, and dozens of Priests among the concelebrants.