{"id":8841,"date":"2016-01-19T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=8841"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:58:52","slug":"jubilee-year-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?page_id=8841","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee Year of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s an (extraordinary) Jubilee Year? \u00a0 \u00a0(Taken from cruxnow.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Also called Holy Years, jubilees normally occur every 25 years. They feature special celebrations and pilgrimages, calls for conversion and repentance, and the offer of special opportunities to experience God\u2019s grace through the sacraments, especially confession.<\/p>\n

Extraordinary holy years, such as the Holy Year of Mercy, are less frequent but offer the same opportunities. The last extraordinary jubilee was called by St. John Paul II in 1983 to mark the 1,950 years after the death of Jesus. John Paul also led the last holy year, known as the \u201cGreat Jubilee,\u201d in 2000.<\/p>\n

The Year of Mercy called for by Francis is the third \u201cextraordinary\u201d jubilee since the tradition began 700 years ago.<\/p>\n

Why a Jubilee of Mercy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year was unexpectedly announced by Pope Francis during a penitential service at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica on March 12. Beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Dec. 8, it will end on the Solemnity of Christ the King, Nov. 20, 2016. Its motto is, \u201cCompassionate like the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us not forget that God forgives and God forgives always,\u201d Francis said when announcing the year. \u201cLet us never tire of asking for forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having already described his papacy as a \u201ckairos\u201d of mercy, a New Testament term meaning a privileged moment in God\u2019s plan of salvation, Francis said the time is ripe for the message of mercy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am convinced that the whole Church \u2014 which has much need to receive mercy, because we are sinners \u2014 will find in this jubilee the joy to rediscover and render fruitful the mercy of God, with which we are all called to give consolation to every man and woman of our time,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n

Mercy beyond the Holy Doors<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the request of Pope Francis, during the jubilee every priest in the world will be able to absolve the sin of abortion, something St. John Paul II also allowed during the extraordinary jubilee of 1983.<\/p>\n

In the United States, virtually every priest already has this authority, granted by local bishops, but that is not the case in many countries.<\/p>\n

In the same decree, Francis also said that during the jubilee year, any Catholic who confesses to a priest of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, a group that split with Rome after Vatican II, will be considered validly absolved.<\/p>\n

Tuesday will also mark the day dioceses around the world are to begin to implement a reform in the process of marriage annulments approved by Francis last August. An annulment is a finding by a Church court that a union between a man and a woman, even if ratified with a Church wedding, was not a real marriage because it didn\u2019t meet one of the tests for validity, such as informed consent.<\/p>\n

The new process, designed to make the practice simpler while maintaining Catholicism\u2019s traditional ban on divorce, reduces the numbers of courts and judges needed, drops the automatic appeals, and makes the process free in countries where there was a fee.<\/p>\n

Official website for the Jubilee Year of Mercy<\/a><\/p>\n

Jubilee Year of Mercy resources from \u00a0the USCCB<\/a><\/p>\n

The Corporal Works of Mercy<\/a><\/p>\n

The Spiritual Works of Mercy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s an (extraordinary) Jubilee Year? \u00a0 \u00a0(Taken from cruxnow.com) Also called Holy Years, jubilees normally occur every 25 years. They feature special celebrations and pilgrimages, calls for conversion and repentance, and the offer of special opportunities to experience God\u2019s grace through the sacraments, especially confession. Extraordinary holy years, such as the Holy Year of Mercy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":591,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8841\/revisions\/8901"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}