Jubilee Basics
Jubilee History & Scripture
Pilgrimage & Practice
Jubilee Around the World
The Doors of Jubilee
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The theme of the 2025 Jubilee Year
What is "Pilgrims of Hope"?
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This year was the most recent ordinary Jubilee before 2025.
What is 2000?
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This special gift is available to the faithful during Jubilee years.
What is a plenary indulgence?
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In this country, millions of Catholics are expected to pass through the Holy Door at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe during Jubilee 2025.
What is Mexico?
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In the Jubilee Year, some dioceses designate a local Holy Door at this kind of church, often the central one in the diocese.
What is the cathedral of the diocese?
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The Pope who declared the 2025 Jubilee Year
Who is Pope Francis?
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In the Bible, Jubilee called for the release of slaves and this economic action.
What is debt forgiveness?
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Visiting this place (or a designated version at home) is a requirement for receiving the Jubilee indulgence.
What is a Holy Door?
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This continent has the fastest-growing Catholic population and will be a major part of Jubilee celebrations.
What is Africa?
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This Holy Door, located in the world's largest Catholic church, is the most visited during any Jubilee Year.
What is the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica?
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The Jubilee Year happens once every this many years (ordinarily).
What is 25 years?
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The year Pope Francis declared this extraordinary Jubilee focused on mercy.
What is the 2016 Jubilee Year of Mercy?
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Along with visiting a Holy Door, you must do this sacrament to receive an indulgence.
What is Reconciliation (Confession)?
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During the Jubilee Year 2000, this country created a 500-mile “Camino” pilgrimage route to its capital city of Santiago de Compostela.
What is Spain?
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This Holy Door is found in the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome and is considered the Mother Church of the Catholic world.
What is the Holy Door of St. John Lateran?
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Jubilee Years invite Catholics to make this type of spiritual journey.
What is a pilgrimage?
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Jubilee is rooted in this Old Testament book.
What is Leviticus?
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This city is the heart of Jubilee celebrations.
What is Rome?
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In the 2000 Jubilee, this country hosted over 1 million pilgrims in just a single month.
What is Italy?
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Known for mosaics and Marian devotion, this basilica's Holy Door honors Mary as the first pilgrim of hope
What is the Holy Door of St. Mary Major?
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The first Catholic Jubilee was declared by this Pope in 1300.
Who is Pope Boniface VIII?
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This Hebrew word for “Jubilee” also means ram’s horn or trumpet.
What is Yobel?
500
This term describes spiritual actions like comforting the sorrowful or teaching the faith.
What are spiritual works of mercy?
500
To mark Jubilee 2025, the Catholic Church in this Asian country is organizing national pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni, often called the “Lourdes of the East.”
What is India?
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This basilica’s Holy Door, located outside the city walls of Rome, stands over the burial place of the Apostle to the Gentiles.
What is the Holy Door of St. Paul Outside the Walls?