Can someone tell me what the Roman Catholic Jubilee in 1999 or 2000 was about?

Question

Please just simply stated.


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Answer 1

This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property, every one to his own family estate. (Leviticus 25:10)

Catholics follow the practice of the ancient Jews in periodically setting aside whole year for special prayer and celebration.

The Catholic Church set aside the year 2000 as the beginning of the third millennium since the birth of Jesus Christ.

Pope John Paul II can define it much better than I: http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/docs/documents/hf_jp-ii_doc_30111998_bolla-jubilee_en.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Catholic church carries onthe tradition of Jubilee:

For the Israelites (see HEBREW YEAR OF JUBILEE), the year of Jubilee was in any case preeminently a time of joy, the year of remission or universal pardon. "Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year," we read in Leviticus 25:10, "and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee." Every seventh year, like every seventh day, was always accounted holy and set aside for rest, but the year which followed seven complete cycles was to be kept as a sabbatical year of special solemnity.

For more information see:


http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08531c.htm

Answer 3

We celebrated the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ.