The Church's Jubilee.
If you are planning to visit Rome at the moment, please don’t. The city is an open air construction site and every major monument is covered in scaffoldings. This is because our Eternal City is getting ready for our 2025 Jubilee. It goes against my interests as a Roman citizen, because the crowds will be huge, but I still suggest you to come once the celebrations kick off. What is a jubilee though? Jubilees remind us of the importance of Christ in our lives, time itself is based on the birth of Christ, for example, when the world celebrated the year 2,000, it was because it had been that long since our Lord took flesh and came into the world. The Church of Rome defines it as such: “In the Roman Catholic tradition, a Holy Year, or Jubilee is a great religious event. It is a year of forgiveness of sins and also the punishment due to sin, it is a year of reconciliation between adversaries, of conversion and receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and consequently of solidarity, hope, j...
