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Charisma News – The Vatican’s announcement of opening sacred portals for the first time in 25 years has raised eyebrows and sparked intrigue. Set to coincide with the 2025 Jubilee Year, the ceremony involves the opening of five “Holy Doors” at ancient basilicas, with one “hypothetical” door at Italy’s Rebibbia prison. While the Catholic Church claims this tradition upholds a “doorway to salvation,” one can’t help but question: What exactly is the Catholic Church attempting to achieve with this elaborate ritual? And more importantly, where in the Bible is any of this remotely supported?
According to The Daily Mail, the Holy Doors are located at some of Rome’s most venerated basilicas, such as St. Peter’s and St. John Lateran, and are ceremonially bricked up and unsealed only during Jubilee Years. Pope Francis, who initiated the ritual on Dec. 2, describes it as a time to focus on hope and spiritual renewal amidst global crises like war, the lingering effects of COVID-19 and climate change. He has also extended this symbolic act to prisoners, aiming to deliver a message of hope. The Jubilee Year’s theme, “Pilgrims of Hope,” reflects these aspirations.
Say no to any and all portals friends!
I had heard that these door opening ceremonies bring in the big bucks for the Vatican with insane amounts of visitors. And at the end of the day isn’t that really what they’re about?
They are opening doors. And much like all the other stuff the catholic church does has no significance. If they read the bible they’d know that.
Love to my catholic brothers and sisters in Christ. I’m talking about your leadership not you.
Portal literally just means door. Port means door, not anything mystical or esoteric. This is a festivity for a Jubilee year. We don’t celebrate Jubilee in a legalistic Mosaic sense. We commemorate it because it signifies so much to do with mercy, and our obligations not being to industriousness and wordly matters, but rather to Christ.
Example: In Jubilee years in the Old Testament, slaves are freed of their debts that keep them bonded to a household. This is just one example. It’s a loss to wordly gains, but forgiving debts prefigures Christ, who can forgive all of our debts. Consider The Lord’s Prayer, where we observe a jubilee every time we pray it.
And this is biblical how?
Saying Jubilees are unbiblical is like saying the sabbath is unbiblical. If you want to draw the Catholic Church’s jubilee years into scrutiny, just ask ‘why is this a tradition?’
Is being worldly Christ’s will? No, taking a year off from tilling the fields to be pious for an entire year is one of the triumphs of Israelite society. This is remembrance of (or in the ancient world, a prefiguration of) the fact that believers are pious people, who belong to the spirit, and mustn’t be committed to commerce. Rather we should just prioritize the faith. The jubilee is in your Bible silly!!!
In medieval Christendom there were 175 workdays. In a pious Catholic age.
In 2024 Canada and USA, you are looking at 260.
We need Jubilees to remind us of the priority of Christ more than ever!
Reminds me of Dan Brown’s book the Da Vinci code.