Jubilee 2025
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Does anyone have thoughts on the Jubilee in 2025? The event beginning on Christmas Eve will draw millions for the pilgrimage.
Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica for 2025 seems to have a deeper significance.
In biblical times, a jubilee year was about the forgiveness of debt. In modern times, the Church has transformed this concept into the forgiveness of sin or moral debt (karma if you like). In Catholic thinking, the Jubilee Year offers sinners (and everyone is a sinner since we are all predisposed to being STS in this world and thus selfish and proud by nature) the chance to gain a special indulgence by making a sincere confession of one's sins and performing a pilgrimage either to the Holy Door in Rome or to a specified equivalent in each country or diocese. It thus offers a chance for the faithful to do a spiritual reset and change in direction towards a more STO path if you like. One must take into account here the Church's concept of redeeming grace transforming the soul of even hardened sinners
The fact that Pope Francis is calling such a year now, so soon after the last one, may be a sign of his recognition of the extreme gravity of the current world situation and the dangers we find ourselves in at this point in time. My brother tells me that many Catholic websites are saying that Francis has recently experienced an apparition at the Vatican warning him of the fact that we are in the End Times referred to in scripture and this may be a last chance for Christians worldwide to do penance and make satisfaction for sin before we are overwhelmed by apocalyptic cataclysms (echoing here the C's recent dire warnings).
For the more cynical among you , it may also be a chance to refill Church coffers since there will inevitably be a large number of pilgrims heading to Rome.
The fact that Pope Francis is calling such a year now, so soon after the last one, may be a sign of his recognition of the extreme gravity of the current world situation and the dangers we find ourselves in at this point in time. My brother tells me that many Catholic websites are saying that Francis has recently experienced an apparition at the Vatican warning him of the fact that we are in the End Times referred to in scripture and this may be a last chance for Christians worldwide to do penance and make satisfaction for sin before we are overwhelmed by apocalyptic cataclysms (echoing here the C's recent dire warnings).
For the more cynical among you , it may also be a chance to refill Church coffers since there will inevitably be a large number of pilgrims heading to Rome.