Posted on 12/25/2024 5:52:14 PM PST by blueplum
The Vatican is set to open five sacred portals starting on Christmas Eve for the first time in 25 years.
The opening of the Holy Doors marks the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee which is a year of forgiveness, reconciliation and renewed focus on the spiritual life....
At the start of Christmas Eve Mass, Pope Francis will push open the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica, which will stay open throughout the year to allow the estimated 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome to pass through....
The process of opening the four basilica doors involves removing the brick wall that covers each door from the inside of the basilica, followed by the Pope pushing the doors open to signal the beginning of the Holy Year.
When Jubilee finishes on January 6, 2026, the Pope will be the last person to walk through each of the four doors before closing them, which will then be bricked up and sealed....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No difference between “mortal sin” and “sin”.
Oh and two other women apparently - haven’t read it lately
Sounds like Jesus needs to come back and tear this temple down too...
Confessional Booths?
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James (the lesser) besides Mary mother of Jesus and the Apostle John
The headline is big time fake news , but plenty of the carp hereabouts are ready to gobble up the bread tossed into the pond
Strange ritual, good money for the bricklayers maybe.
Those Roman gnostics sure have some special ceremonies.
There are many reports (all over the place on the claims)
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/51379
Key events:
Tues 24th December First ‘sacred portal’ opened by Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Weds 25th December Annual Urbi + Orbi message. The Pope is expected to highlight debt in his message
Thurs 26th December Prison door opened by Pope Francis inside a Roman prison. The first time in 600 years that a prison door has been included in a Jubilee launch.
Sunday 29th December Cathedral doors across England & Wales opened by Bishops and Archbishops in UK. Similar events happening around the world
Weds 1st January World Day of Peace. Pope Francis delivers a message about debt cancellation and Jubilee.
A slighly better format than the link:
Key events:
Tues 24th December First ‘sacred portal’ opened by Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Weds 25th December Annual Urbi + Orbi message. The Pope is expected to highlight debt in his message
Thurs 26th December Prison door opened by Pope Francis inside a Roman prison. The first time in 600 years that a prison door has been included in a Jubilee launch.
Sunday 29th December Cathedral doors across England & Wales opened by Bishops and Archbishops in UK. Similar events happening around the world
Weds 1st January World Day of Peace. Pope Francis delivers a message about debt cancellation and Jubilee.
Actually there is and it is part of Apostolic Tradition found in both the Sacred Scriptures and Tradition
In Matthews Gospel 12:31-32 it is clear that there are differences of sin. Therefore I tell you that every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this age or the age to come.
So it is clear in this passage alone there is a sin which can never be forgiven, which Catholic Theologians say is one who never confesses their sin and repents and dies that way (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit] but even in this passage some sins can be forgiven in age to come [early Church Fathers saw this as postmortem purification before one can participate in the Beatific vision where they enjoy perfect communion with the Triune God and the all the angels and saints, i.e. purgatory]
1 John 5:16-17 clearly points to differences in sin. There is sin that is deadly and while all wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not deadly.
Well it is obvious that the sin that is not deadly is not the unforgivable sin described in MT 12:31-32. To further illustrate various types of sin found in the NT, we can also refer to James 5:13-19 where the Apostle James speaks of both anointing the sick and confession [both Sacraments in the Apostolic Churches, i.e. Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East]. We read on that if says if someone brings back someone who has wondered away from the truth, that will save the soul of the person who was brought back and that act of charity will cover a “multitude of sins”. Notice the act of bring one back covers a multitude of sins, not “all sins” and certainly not the “unforgivable sin”
Saint Peter in his 1st Epistle [4:8] has a theology of sin that is consistent with Saint James and illustrates differences in types of sin. For Saint Peter writes “Above all hold unfailing love for one another since love covers a multitude of sins.
2 OT books in the Canon of all Apostolic Churches, mentioned above already, have this theology of people acting in charity and covering sins. You can see this in both Tobit 12:9 and Sirach 29:12.
Finally, in Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans [5:12] we read all men sinned. Again, this has to be interpreted in context. This is referring to Adam and thus “original sin” not personal sin of anyone. Thus, by all sinned it does not mean for example a child of 1 or 2 years old committed “personal sin” that would be heretical nonsense. Thus, in this passage when Saint Paul speaks of “all have sinned” it does not mean all have actually committed a personal sin, venial or mortal, in Catholic theology.
In summary, the views you posit are the views of those protestants from north of the Alps starting in the 16th century and have not basis in the Apostolic Church and those Churches that existed in the Roman world south of the alps in Europe (Italy and Greece] and the Eastern part of the Roman empire and most importantly it is not supported by Sacred Scripture.
I remember being told of these doors when I lived in Italy. Modern day indulgences. Walk through and all your sins are forgiven you, just like magic. Once every 50 years.
I lived there. I saw the door (one of them). They said they open them every 50 years and if you walk through all of your sins are forgiven. You may read what you like. I was there and that’s what they told us. My catholic neighbors believed this.
Indulgences have nothing to do with forgiveness of sins. you are very confused. Indulgences only deal with the consequences of temporal realities of sin. For forgiveness of sins the normative means is the sacrament of confession. If someone is in grave danger of death and has no access to a priest who can administer the sacrament, then one makes what is called an act of contrition which is like the sacrament of confession.
IOW, he closed them which has caused how many Catholics eternal damnation?
Francis is fake.
I thought this was a Babylon Bee article.
Jesus' blood cleanses us from ALL sin. Nothing else can do it.
Suffering doesn't. Suffering in some hypothetical spiritual places doesn't. Penance doesn't. Indulgences don't.
ONLY the blood of Jesus.
You are very well read, and well spoken defending the Church.
Thank you.
there is a person on fr named:mene mene.. who hates the church and the apologists. Maybe he only beats up on girls. He told me to shut up or else.
I have no idea what set him off. I bet you will get a bunch of hate mail. I say, thank you for defending the Truth.
Merry Christmas.
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