(ZENIT News / Rome, 01.08.2024).- In face of the proximity of the start of the Jubilee 2025, the question has recently been posed if it would be possible to foresee the configuration and opening of the Holy Door in Cathedral Churches, in National and International Shrines, as well as in other particularly significant places of worship.
In this connection, respecting the most sensible consideration of the pastoral and devotional motivations, which have seen it fit to suggest such a laudable aspiration, the Dicastery for Evangelization issued a note in which it recalls the specific indications established by the Holy Father in the Bull “Spes Non Confundit,” of Convocation of the Jubilee 2025, which indicates exclusively how the Holy Doors of Saint Peter’s Basilica and of the other three Pontifical Basilicas of Saint John Lateran, Saint Mary Major and Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls (cf. n. 6), will open except for the desire expressed by the Holy Father to open personally the Holy Door of a prison “to offer the prisoners a concrete sign of closeness” (cf. n. 10).
The Dicastery for Evangelization points out that “It is also well known that the peculiar and identifying sign of the Jubilee Year, just as it has been transmitted since the first Jubilee of the year 1300, is the Indulgence that “expresses the fulness of God’s forgiveness, which has no limits” (cf. n. 23), through the Sacrament of Penance and of signs of charity and hope (cf. nn. 7-15),” And it concludes: “Therefore, to live in fulness this moment of grace one is exhorted to refer to the particular places and the various modalities indicated by the Decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary of May 13, 2024.”
