On January 3, the Pope approved the motto for the next Holy Year during an audience with the president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, Msgr. Rino Fisichella.
Newsroom (January 14, 2022, 6:35 PM, Gaudium Press) According to Msgr. Fisichella, the upcoming Jubilee “can be summed up in two words: Pilgrims of hope.”
“The Pope’s concern is that the Jubilee of 2025 be prepared in the best possible way,” the archbishop noted in an interview with Italian television channel Telepace.
“There is a lot of work to be done” in these two years, declared Archbishop Fisichella. He will have the responsibility of organizing it. “It is necessary to have a solid preparatory impact and to create an efficient organizational machine,” he stressed, and added: “to activate it fully, I await new indications from the Pope,” said Msgr. Fisichella. Although work has already begun, one of the priorities concerns the reception of pilgrims and faithful.
History of the Jubilee
The Jubilee of 2025 will be the 27th ordinary Jubilee in the history of the Church. The first was proclaimed by Boniface VIII in 1300 and was to be celebrated every hundred years.
In 1350, however, Clement VI determined to hold them every 50 years. Later, Paul II, with a Bull from 1470, established that the Jubilee should be held every 25 years.
The Pope inaugurates the Holy Year with the rite of the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. After that, the Holy Doors of the other papal basilicas – St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls and St. Mary Major – are opened and remain so until the end of the Jubilee Year.
The Jubilee of Mercy, called by Pope Francis with the Bull Misericordiae Vultus in 2015, was an extraordinary jubilee.
The Jubilee offers the faithful the possibility to profit the Plenary Indulgence for themselves or for the deceased, it is a year of reconciliation and conversion, of solidarity and commitment for justice at the service of God and the brethren.
With information from Vatican News.
Compiled by Zephania Gangl