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The 2025 Jubilee is a jubilee in the Catholic Church celebrated in the year 2025, announced by Pope John Paul II at the end of the 2000 Great Jubilee. [1] This jubilee was preceded by the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy of 2015–2016. [2] The papal bull proclaiming the Jubilee is "Spes non confundit" (Latin for "Hope does not disappoint"). [3]
A jubilee is a special year of remission of sins, debts and universal pardon. In the Book of Leviticus, a jubilee year is mentioned to occur every 50th year (after 49 years, 7x7, as per Lev 25:8, NRSV) during which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.
The ceremony inaugurated the once-every-25-year tradition of a Jubilee, in which the Catholic faithful make pilgrimages to Rome. Francis has dedicated the 2025 Jubilee to the theme of hope, and he will underscore that message when he opens a Holy Door on Thursday at Rome’s Rebibbia prison in a bid to give inmates hope for a better future.
Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday after three months of renovations, just in time for the inauguration of the 2025 Jubilee Holy Year that is expected to draw millions of visitors. To ...
ROME (AP) — Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday after three months of renovations, just in time for the inauguration of the 2025 Jubilee Holy Year that is expected to draw millions of visitors. The renovation work on the 18th-century monument that's one of the Italian capital's main attractions cost 327,000 euros ($341,000).
The Holy Door at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. In John 10:9, Jesus is quoted as saying, "I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved." [6] In Luke 11:9 is found, "And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
A Jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, "Old Testament"), initially concerning a recurring religious observance involving a set number of years, that notably involved freeing of debt slaves.