What And When Is The Jubilee Year?

[Paladin D]

There are a pair of doors that remain closed, but are open during the Jubilee year. What is it, and when?

[littleflower+JMJ]

the year of the Jubilee was in 2000 i believe. it was the year that the "Great Doors" were opened in mark of the 25 yrs?

Pope John Paul II shut the door in St. Peter's Basillica that he opened to mark the beginning of the third millennium of Christianity when the year came to a close.

i think the Pope declares each year and starting this coming Ocotober it will be "the Year of the Eucharist"

heres more the Jubilee Year:
[url="http://www.cin.org/jp2/jubilee.html"]http://www.cin.org/jp2/jubilee.html[/url]
heres the history of it: [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08534a.htm"]http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08534a.htm[/url]

i think 1998: The Year of the Spirit and 1999 - Year of the Father

[Soldier4Him]

You're correct littleflower, it was in the year 2000. "Open wide the doors to Christ" was the theme. And come October indeed begins the year of the Eucharist. This year will be for bringing people back to the church! I can feel it!

[Paladin D]

So the doors are only openned every 49 years?

[p0lar_bear]

Jubilee years are declared at the discretion of the Pope (it doesn't have to be 50 years).

I'm not positive about the doors, but I don't think they are always closed, just after the announcement of a coming Jubilee year...kind of like not saying Alleluia during Lent, you can say it for most of the year, but not during Lent as a preparation for Easter...

I'm just making that up though...could be right, could be wrong

[Paladin D]

So every 49 years, the doors open?

[God Conquers]

I believe so.

[mmmerf]

It used to be every 50 years. Then it was every 33. Now it's every 25 years. And the Jubilee doors stay closed between one jubilee year and the next.

Which is why on the last day before they closed, (Jan 5, 2001) about 50,000 people went through 'em. Even though it was raining. It was fantastic to see.

(I made it through the jubilee doors of the 4 Major Roman Basilicas just days before they closed. And I was in St. Peter's Square when JPII closed them, and signed Novo Millenio Inuente. )

[Paladin D]

What do you see when you walk through the doors? Is the room a secret or?