Jubilee in the Catholic Church

And so next question.

Yes, the book came because I led a pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee.

I think full transparency, complete honesty here.

I kind of said no to pilgrimage a long time before I said yes.

or

by so many other things.

So when I got the invitation from a different of mine to go on pilgrimage during the Jubilee, he very playfully said, what would it take for you to go on pilgrimage? And I shot back an immediate response that I thought would be too strict and too demanding, and he would say no.

And so I shot him back my response, and he said, sounds perfect to me.

Compare that to what Pervost allowed inside St. Peter's Basilica.

But to get back to John Paul, quote, In the name of the Church of Rome, I cannot... not express bitterness for the affront to the grand Jubilee of the year 2000 and for the offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics across the world.

So that was a Jubilee year.

And it wasn't even being held.

The LGB alphabet soup thing wasn't even being held in a Catholic cathedral, basilica.

Yeah.

And he saw it as an affront.

And, but last year was a quote unquote Jubilee year.

1990 was a significant double jubilee year for my religious community because it was the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius and the 450th anniversary of the Society, and I was a novice that year, a first year novice, And I asked a Jesuit who was a historian of the society, I said, Father, I've seen so many depictions of St. Ignatius for the Jubilee year.

What do you think would be the ideal depiction of St. Ignatius for this year? And he thought for a moment.

He said, well, in the foreground, there would be St. Ignatius on his deathbed, his hands folded in prayer.

It's a great walking route for pilgrims, which people take regularly.

in an ordinary year by the thousands, but 2027 is a Jubilee year.

It's the Año Zacopeo.

When St. James Day, which happens I think in July 25th of 2027, so you might want to avoid that day, it's falling on a Sunday.

And if you don't want to walk, you just want to go to the town.

Of course, that's also acceptable.

And a lot of people will be doing that in the Jubilee year.

Right.

And so let's get on that.

In fact, this is the Jubilee year for the five first Saturdays because it was given in 1925 in December.

I believe it was December the 10th.

But so last year we had 100 years of it.

This year is the Jubilee year of it.

So you have just a couple more months, actually probably November, December, two more months to get in your First Saturday devotion.

Again, five consecutive First Saturdays is what Our Lady's asked for, but we can do it every First Saturday.

The Mass coincides with Halloween, the Eve of All Saints Day.

It also coincides with the Jubilee Year of the Order's founder, St. Francis of Assisi, which commemorates the 800th anniversary of his death.

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So we now get, as we go deeper into history, we now arrive at, we go from ancient penance to medieval indulgences.

We think of Clermont, Lateran IV, and the Jubilee.

Now we reach the period when the Catholic doctrine of indulgences which was already present.

It's a biblical presence.

I think so.

I think it is.

And then we get to Boniface VIII and the Jubilee of 1300.

If you read Boniface VIII's work Anticorum Habet, that will grant broad remission to pilgrims to Rome.