Understanding the Jubilee Year | Fr. Matt Wheeler

Summary

In this enlightening discussion, Fr. Matt Wheeler from USC Trojan Catholic delves into the rich history and significance of the Jubilee Year within the Catholic tradition. Scheduled to start on Christmas Eve 2024, this Jubilee is rooted in biblical teachings from the Book of Leviticus, emphasizing themes of liberation, reconciliation, and restoration. Fr. Matt dispels myths about its origins as a mere money-making scheme, highlighting its deep spiritual and communal purpose. He articulates how these biblical events manifest in Catholic practices today and invites believers to partake in this upcoming holy year through sacramental life, pilgrimage, and understanding indulgences.

Highlights

• The Jubilee Year, set to commence on Christmas Eve 2024, celebrates liberation and spiritual renewal ⛪️.
• Rooted in Leviticus 25, it mandates emancipation of slaves and forgiveness of debts every 50 years 📖.
• The first Jubilee was set in 1300; it continues to be an established tradition for Catholics 🌐.
• Fr. Matt describes Jubilee as an invitation to spiritual hope and pilgrimage, not just a historical reenactment 🎒.
• The year's themes draw from Genesis, focusing on family, freedom, and fullness within God's plan 🌟.

Key Takeaways

• The Jubilee Year is deeply rooted in biblical tradition, originating from the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament 📜.
• It symbolizes liberation, forgiveness of debts, and restoration of family and community ties 🙌.
• Critics view it with skepticism, but Fr. Matt highlights its spiritual importance beyond just a financial boost for the church 🏦➡️🕊️.
• Fr. Matt urges the faithful to engage with this Jubilee year through sacraments, pilgrimages, and understanding indulgences 🎯.
• The Jubilee invites Catholics to return to spiritual roots and deepen their faith through renewal and hope 🌱.

Overview

Fr. Matt Wheeler captivates with his insights into the Jubilee Year, a profound aspect of Catholic tradition marking its roots back to the 1300s. Emphasizing a year of spiritual rejuvenation, he outlines its biblical foundations stemming from Levitical law. The Jubilee Year is not just a yearly observance but a journey through faith, hope, and communal ties, urging Catholics to return to their spiritual roots and embrace the freedom it offers.

The historical significance of the Jubilee Year is grounded in liberation and forgiveness, as commanded in Leviticus 25. Fr. Matt explores the misconceptions surrounding its purpose, rebuffing skeptics who saw it as a Church-driven economic strategy. Instead, he amplifies its true intent—a universal call for reconciliation and familial restoration, pivotal for nurturing peace and unity among believers.

To make the most of the upcoming Jubilee Year, Fr. Matt encourages Catholics to dive into sacramental life, participate in pilgrimages, and gain insights into indulgences. By doing so, they unlock the spiritual treasures the Jubilee holds, reawaken their faith, and foster a deeper connection with God. With emphasis on family, freedom, and fullness, the Jubilee becomes a beacon of hope and renewal.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 05:00: Introduction to the Jubilee Year The chapter titled 'Introduction to the Jubilee Year' begins by discussing the announcement made by Pope Francis regarding the Jubilee Year. On May 9th, 2024, the Pope issued a papal bull, an official letter in Catholic tradition, to declare that the year 2025 would be celebrated as a Jubilee Year. This special year will commence on December 24th, 2024, aligning with Christmas Eve.
• 05:00 - 10:00: Biblical Roots of the Jubilee Year The chapter titled 'Biblical Roots of the Jubilee Year' discusses the significance of the Jubilee year within the Catholic tradition. The Jubilee year is set to occur in 2025, spanning from 2024 through January 6, 2026. Historically, the Jubilee year has been a tradition since the year 1300, marking it as an event deeply rooted in tradition rather than a novel or unusual concept.
• 10:00 - 15:00: The Original Sin and the Need for Restoration The chapter discusses the concept of pilgrimage and its significance in spiritual reconciliation. It touches on the history of the Jubilee year, which dates back to 1300. The Jubilee is likened to a pilgrimage—a symbolic journey of coming home and restoring one's spiritual status. The chapter hints at upcoming critiques and reflections on the practice.
• 15:00 - 20:00: Moses and the Establishment of the Jubilee Year This chapter discusses the historical context of the Jubilee Year in the Catholic Church, hinting at some skepticism about its true intentions. It suggests that the Jubilee Year was originally devised by a Pope as a strategy to attract people to Rome, encouraging them to spend money, which would then fill the Church's coffers. This critical assessment questions the motivations behind the establishment of the Jubilee Year, implying it was more about financial gain than spiritual renewal.
• 20:00 - 25:00: Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Jubilee Year The chapter titled 'Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Jubilee Year' discusses the concept of the Jubilee year in a religious context. It clarifies misconceptions about the Jubilee year, emphasizing its spiritual significance rather than any perceived corruption. The focus is on the theme of 'pilgrims of hope,' a concept encouraged by the holy fathers to explore the theological virtue of hope. The upcoming worship night is mentioned as an occasion to delve deeper into the understanding of the Jubilee year's theme and to foster a collective sense of hope within the community.
• 25:00 - 30:00: Living the Jubilee Year through Sacraments and Pilgrimage The chapter focuses on the concept of the Jubilee year, exploring its origins and significance. It clarifies that the Jubilee year is not a medieval Catholic creation but is deeply rooted in biblical history, specifically found in the Old Testament's Book of Leviticus. This chapter sets up to discuss sacraments and pilgrimages, primarily focusing on understanding the historical and religious context of the Jubilee year before delving into other aspects.
• 30:00 - 35:00: Understanding Indulgences and Their Role in the Jubilee Year The chapter titled 'Understanding Indulgences and Their Role in the Jubilee Year' discusses the biblical concept found in Leviticus 25, where every 50th year is designated as a Jubilee year. During this time, the high priest enters the temple, specifically on the 10th day of the seventh month, focusing on themes of liberation and reconciliation. This chapter explores the legislation by Moses regarding this special year and its significance in religious practice.
• 35:00 - 40:00: Conclusion and Call to Spiritual Renewal The chapter discusses the concept of spiritual renewal and the significance of the jubilee year, a sacred time emphasizing forgiveness and liberation. It highlights the symbolic act of sprinkling blood upon the holy of holies as an act of contrition for one's sins, including those of the priests and all the people. The jubilee year occurs every 50 years, providing a powerful opportunity for spiritual and social reset, where not only are sins forgiven, but enslaved individuals are emancipated and financial debts are forgiven.

Understanding the Jubilee Year | Fr. Matt Wheeler Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 awesome so Jubilee year you may or may not have realized but on May 9th 2024 so this past May Pope Francis wrote a papal bull and that's one of those kind of you know weird Catholic words or whatever you want to call it for like an official letter announcing that 2025 would be a jubilee year specifically it's going to start uh December so Christmas Eve of
• 00:30 - 01:00 2024 and it's going to continue through January 6th of 2026 more or less a year right 2025 this is a holy year it's a jubilee year and the fact that we're having a jubilee year uh isn't something like crazy or just out of left field it's very much a part of our our Catholic tradition going back to the year 1300 so like hundreds of years ago that was the year we had the first Jubilee year it was meant to
• 01:00 - 01:30 be a time of pilgrimage it was meant to be a time of reconciliation and once again kind of going back to that idea of pilgrimage like coming home and coming home so the first pilgrimage goes all the way back to the year 1300 and we've been having Jubilee sorry the first Jubilee year goes back to 1300 we've had them right since then periodically I'm going to Hash that out a little bit more uh a bit later now some critics might say
• 01:30 - 02:00 you know the history of the old Jubilee year in the Catholic church is a little sus little suspect you know that Holy Father he was just greedy and he was trying to scheme up a way to get more money and so he devised this clever little thing called a a jubilee year encouraging everybody to come to Rome why so they would spend money he could take their money and fill his pockets right so you hear some like really critical assessments of what this
• 02:00 - 02:30 whole Jubilee year is about but it's not true right that sort of analysis I mean obviously the Catholic church is not immune from corruption clearly we know this but it's inaccurate it's simply not true so what is the Jubilee year so next worship night we're going to talk about the theme of The Jubilee year which is pilgrims of hope that the holy fathers wants us to really cast our gazes on like this this theological virtue of Hope like what is hope all about what
• 02:30 - 03:00 does it mean to be a pilgrim of hope that's next time but tonight we're just going to focus on the Jubilee like what is the jubiler why do we have a jubilee year and where does it come from so the Jubilee year it's not a Catholic invention going back to the Dark Ages or something like that instead it's something that has deep biblical roots and it goes back to the Old Testament The Book of Leviticus probably one of the least read books in the Bible
• 03:00 - 03:30 Leviticus 25 and in Leviticus 25 we read about Moses legislating that every 50 years there's going to be a time a period a whole year period of like Liberation reconciliation because on that 50th year the high priest is going to enter the temple specifically it's going to be the 10th day of the seventh month he's going to go into the holy of holies he's going
• 03:30 - 04:00 to sprinkle sprinkle blood upon the holy of holies in in reparation in sorrow for his sins the sins of priests and the sins of all the people and so on the one hand this year every 50 years is going to have to do with forgiveness of sins right but it's also going to be an incredible year in which slaves will be set free debts like Financial debts money that is owed will be cancel
• 04:00 - 04:30 and forgiven that land will be returned to its original land owners and that all those will be able to return to the land that they once inhabited so once again it's like it's all about Liberation from sin but also communally and it's about restoration and so that's what Leviticus 25 speaks about and as you can already see this is kind of going to be the biblical Foundation you know specifically of the the Jubilee year but
• 04:30 - 05:00 really the Jubilee year goes back because once again especially as we see it today how it's kind of developed you know through the Holy Spirit and the life of the church the Jubilee year is meant to restore something something that was lost you know the world today looks very different than it did in the time of Moses when you know this legislation was taking place right and so in order to understand what God desires to restore and to liberate us from we have to go back even further further back to the
• 05:00 - 05:30 first book of the Bible which is the Book of Genesis and in that first chapter first two chapters of Genesis we read about the creation story there's going to be I know you know that story but there's going to be a few themes that we kind of look at that story through so as to understand more deeply like yeah this this real motivation and Foundation to the Jubilee year that we're celebrating today and so those three themes we're going to look at
• 05:30 - 06:00 family freedom and fullness so first family once we're familiar with the story of creation God creates the whole world and it is good but the crown of God's creation is Humanity right Adam and Eve and the Bible says that Adam and Eve were made in God's his what Im so they were made in His image and likeness and you might ask yourself like what does it mean to be made in God's image and likeness and
• 06:00 - 06:30 actually if you fast forward a few chapters in The Book of Genesis we get an answer to that because it it talks about how Seth was made in the image and likeness of his father Adam right so Adam goes on Adam and You' gone to have a son Seth who's made in Adam's image and like this and gives us insight into what it means and ultimately to be made in the image and likeness points to a family relationship Seth is Adam's son his child we're made in God's image and
• 06:30 - 07:00 likeness God is our father and we are God's children so part of God's plan the harmony of creation as God desired it is is the reality of family vertically our family relationship with God but it's not only the vertical relationship between humanity and the lord it's also horizontally like our relationship with one another and so going back to the first couple chapters of Genesis in the creation story you know God says it's
• 07:00 - 07:30 not good for man to be alone and so he creates a suitable helpmate for him Eve comes from the side the the the rib of Adam and when Adam sees Eve he's in total awe he's like the beauty right at last bone of my bone Flesh of My Flesh right which is language in the Bible that that underlines or highlights and kind of UND scores the reality of
• 07:30 - 08:00 marriage right after that it says that the the father will leave a man will leave his father and his mother be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh the one flesh Union right this is marital language this is familial language this is the language of Covenant deep intimacy family bonds being established between Adam and Eve they're not just you know man and woman kind of separate there's there's this Unity that God desires for them so when once again family relationship with the
• 08:00 - 08:30 Lord but also family relationship horizontally marriage family so an important aspect of the creation story which is going to come up in the Jubilee year is this this reality of family relationships and then the second theme that comes up in Genesis is freedom I don't know if you noticed this but when the Bible speaks about Adam and Eve it says that they had dominion over
• 08:30 - 09:00 creation God actually commanded them to subdue creation and I'm no major biblical scholar but I have come to come to learn that those words dominion and subdue this is this is language that the biblical author right inspired by the holy spirit is using to communicate royalty that Adam and Eve were not just yeah I mean there was like a royal sense a kingship that they exercised over all of creation that there was an authority
• 09:00 - 09:30 there right that God actually entrusted creation to them it goes on to say that they they um guarded creation that they were to cultivate creation and actually work in this beautiful creation and so biblical Scholars say too that this this language is actually Priestly language like Adam is a priest Eve is participating in this Priestly authority over all of creation
• 09:30 - 10:00 and so because of this they were able to walk exist and move in and through Creation with freedom right they had an authority they were not strangers to Creation in God's original plan so family freedom and then fullness that they were able to enjoy in the garden in Eden an abundance of God's blessings I mean there was the one rule they couldn't eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil right so
• 10:00 - 10:30 they had that one rule but aside from that they could eat the fruit of any of the trees so they walked freely and they were able to enjoy God's blessing this communion this this abundance this fullness of the Lord and so in God's plan the harmony surrounds family freedom and fullness but then something happens we keep reading and what happens Adam and Eve are tempted right
• 10:30 - 11:00 and they fall away from God's plan they sin and we call this the original sin and when they sin things changed yeah we call it a fall from grace and so these original blessings and circumstances and situations cease to be when you continue to read the Old Testament it's just like one story after another of God reaching out to humanity to reestablish right relationship and we respond with great hope like yeah we're
• 11:00 - 11:30 going to do it we're going to be faithful but then we're Unfaithful and then we're faithful and then we're Unfaithful it's just this back and forth battle really a struggle we experience this today in our own hearts of wanting to be faithful and wanting to respond with everything we have to the goodness of God but in our weakness we screw it up we put our foot in it right now maybe the the climactic story or just the the best example I think of the Old Testament that you'll be familiar with is Moses the people of
• 11:30 - 12:00 Israel leaving Egypt and slavery right crossing the Red Sea which symbolizes Liberation they get into the desert God has done so much for them Moses goes up the mountain has this encounter with the Lord and he comes back down and what are the People Israel doing they're worshiping a golden calf once again like God is good God is reaching out they respond but then their weakness they fall like the Old
• 12:00 - 12:30 Testament is just you know Fidelity infidelity Fidelity and infidelity so this is like the background to Leviticus 25 that I was speaking about earlier which is all about the Jubilee year and so to put ourselves back into Leviticus 25 is to put ourselves in the shoes of Moses here he is with with the people of Israel right faithful Unfaithful faith and he's thinking to himself how can we set up a
• 12:30 - 13:00 culture that will avoid sliding back into this into spiritual and physical slavery right spiritual slavery sin and like idolatry and physical slavery like Egypt you know hard labor how do we set up a religious and civil society in which we won't slide back into slavery so he sets up a lurgical calendar which was meant to help
• 13:00 - 13:30 preserve a lifestyle of fidelity and it's organized around a series of sevens this is a little technical if you're taking notes you might want to write some of this down I'm not going to go into maybe all the details but what's interesting though is what what is Moses's motivation he wants Fidelity he wants to help his people remain true to God and so Leviticus 25 is going to set up some parameters hopefully to safeguard that Fidelity and one of those parameters is that every said seven
• 13:30 - 14:00 days they will have a Sabbath does this sound familiar the Lord's day Sunday okay good it should so every seven days there's a Sabbath day and this will be a day when the goods of the Jubilee or like when you think back to Eden family Freedom fullness are meant to be pursued so on the seventh day the Sabbath they're going to refrain from work they're not going to work there's like a freedom from work they're going to focus on family
• 14:00 - 14:30 relationships once again family right spend time nurturing those they're going to worship God on the Sabbath the the vertical the vertical family relationship God their father right they're going to have to trust that God will provide for them I mean put yourself in their shoes even today people are cons if I don't work how am I going to make even for one day like how am I going to make money other people are making more money I can't continue the rat race if I stop you know so you have to like
• 14:30 - 15:00 trust in the fullness of God and in the Lord's Providence he will provide for their needs so every seven days he had Sabbath every seven months you had a month of Freedom or Liberation the sins of the people were atoned for on the 10th day of the seven month this is what today is called the day of atonement in Judaism the day of atonement once again the priest enters the temple sprinkles the blood it's a way of making atonement for the sin of the people and then there's
• 15:00 - 15:30 restoration there's forgiveness it was a month in which they rested from work right the toil of Labor once again focusing on family relationships once again family freedom and fullness every seven months every seven years they had a Sabbath year some of you may have heard of in your I don't know area of work like a little sabatical all I can say is as priests you can technically have a sabatical every seven years it's kind of
• 15:30 - 16:00 interesting which is a year of rest right I can't imagine that an entire year of rest so that was something that Moses was establishing once again why focus on family on freedom and on fullness trusting that God will provide in that year of rest and then every seven sets of seven years so what's 7 time 7 49 so every 49 years there would be an extra year so the 50th
• 16:00 - 16:30 year would be a second year so it's like two years in a row 49 a seven and then the 50th year of rest right and this 50 that is the Jubilee year and this was the year as I was mentioning earlier where debts were forgiven slaves were free lands were returned people came back home this idea of pilgrimage home and so I want to read for you from The Book of Leviticus just a portion of it in the Bible we read you shall count
• 16:30 - 17:00 seven weeks of years seven times seven years such that the seven weeks of years amount to 49 years biblical math not always the easiest to follow then on the 10th day of the seven month what day is that that's that day of atonement right let the Rams Horn ReSound on this day the day of atonement the Rams Horn blast shall ReSound throughout your land you shall treat this 50th year as sacred you
• 17:00 - 17:30 shall Proclaim Liberty in the land for all its inhabitants once again slaves set free Liberty to the captives it shall be a jubilee for you when each of you shall return to your own property each of you to your own family right so once again family freedom and fullness this is what's being emphasized in the Jubilee year in this case the the seventh set of seven 49 and then that 50th
• 17:30 - 18:00 year forgiveness rest trust in God's Providence you fast forward to Jesus and there's more we could talk about but we don't have all night we're going to fast forward to our Lord and what I want you to see is that Jesus is ultimately the definitive fulfillment of this desire for family and freedom and rest that's in our hearts right this kind of Longing To Go Back to Eden to be restored and liberated Jesus is the fulf fulfillment of
• 18:00 - 18:30 that at the beginning of his public Ministry we read this in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4 you've heard this passage before Jesus stands up in the synagogue and he reads from chapter 61 of the book of Isaiah chapter 61 is a jubilee passage and this is what Jesus proclaims in the presence of the scribes Pharisees Scholars of the law and the people he says the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad add Tidings to the poor he has sent me
• 18:30 - 19:00 to Proclaim Liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind to let the oppressed Go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord rolling up the scroll he handed it back to the attendant and sat down and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him he said to them today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing boom from his own mouth he
• 19:00 - 19:30 says I am the Fulfillment and everybody in that room would have known what this passage was referring to remember captive set free Liberty right restoration so he clearly says he's the Fulfillment of Jubilee when you look at the ministry of Jesus he forgives sins reconciliation and he frees people from bondage slavery to Demons Jesus cast out the evil
• 19:30 - 20:00 spirits Jesus had these Jubilee Powers we could call them right of forgiving sins and casting out spiritual evil and my question for us is okay so Jesus is the Fulfillment and if Jesus had these powers and this ability to liberate and free definitively well what does that mean for us today well once again going back to the Bible we see that Jesus takes his Jubilee powers and he bestows them upon his Apostles which shall then passed on to their successors known as
• 20:00 - 20:30 Bishops and Priests Unite with Bishops in their exercise of ministry so I just want to point how this happens so in the scripture Jesus appointed 12 whom he also named Apostles this is from the gospel of Mark chapter 3 that they might be with him and they he might send them forth to preach and have authority to drive out demons we see in that passage Jesus is sharing the power to drive out evil with his Apostles and the gospel of Matthew amen I say to you whatever you
• 20:30 - 21:00 bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven there's a twofold meaning here on the one hand binding and loosing he's talking about power over spiritual evil casting out demons but he's also talking about forgiving sins that he's sharing even his power because only God can forgive sins he's sharing that power with them to exercise moving forward it's made even more clearly in John 20: vers 22 he says and when he had
• 21:00 - 21:30 said this he breathed on them receive the Holy Spirit who sends you forgive are forgiven them and whose sins you retain are retained that's the Risen Lord Jesus coming into the room where the apostles are gathered in fear saying who sins you forgive I forgive I mean he's sharing his powers with them so he shares his authority as a power with the apostles and that power is then passed on over the centuries and generations to
• 21:30 - 22:00 their successors the Bishops and all those who receive the sacrament of holy orders priests in particular okay now where I'm going with this is this if you want to experience Jesus and the Jubilee if you want to experience a powerful 2025 Jubilee year which the Holy Father is calling all of us to then there's three main ways I want to focus on the first is this we can experien Jesus as the
• 22:00 - 22:30 Jubilee by receiving the sacraments of the church by learning to see and and be renewed in our understanding of what's going on in and through the sacraments once again family right freedom and fullness think about the sacrament of baptism what's happening in baptism we're being liberated of sin original sin any personal sins that we've committed we're being born spiritually as God's beloved children right we're brought into God's family family once again Jesus is the Fulfillment and it's
• 22:30 - 23:00 continuing to work on us through the sacraments of the church think of the sacrament of reconciliation what is this this is the sacrament we go in there we own it we confess our sins before the priest and what happens we're forgiven of our sins we're liberated we're liberated of our sins I mean exorcists talk about how the most important thing you can do if you ever think that there's like demonic influence or some sort of evil spirits
• 23:00 - 23:30 you know I'm hearing things in my house I don't know it's just I get this Vibe it's super dark Whatever Whenever you like sense that the most important thing you can do they say is go to confession make a good confession Satan hates confession so it's like Liberation from sin Liberation from spiritual evil think about fullness right enjoying God's abundance what is the Eucharist the Eucharist is true food for our souls it's God coming to dwell Among
• 23:30 - 24:00 Us right so family freedom and fullness this is what the sacramental life is all about my friends and so if you want to live a powerful Jubilee year focus on the sacraments focus on entering into them more deeply and I want to make a special pitch for the sacrament of reconciliation the sacrament of confession I'm going to be hearing confessions in just a moment right maybe you already go to confession regular regly maybe you go once a month which is kind of the
• 24:00 - 24:30 general recommendation if you go once a month I want to encourage you try twice a month if you go twice a month already father M I already go twice a month all right go every week try it that's my practice I go every week Monday's my day Father Mark God bless him he's got a lot of patience with me and really my friends I mean so many of the Saints lived weekly confession yeah and so anyway the point is this give it a shot regular reception
• 24:30 - 25:00 of the sacrament of reconciliation does wonders don't let Satan get the better of you because of fear we're always so afraid what's the priest going to think he'll never whatever no no no no it's God you go in there and you open your heart God is working and it's amazing all right now the second way so sacraments regular reception especially the ukar uh confession second thing I want to how do we live this this year
• 25:00 - 25:30 pilgrimage once again the lands are returned to the people people return home and this Jubilee year right the Holy Father is encouraging us to go on pilgrimage to return to our spiritual home specifically Rome now I'm not sure we have any plans of a pilgrimage to Rome here at the Catholic Center maybe you can arrange for something I don't know can't make it to Rome even on a local level we're organizing pilgrim ages for the Jubilee year to have this experience of
• 25:30 - 26:00 returning home to God on April 5th we're going to have a pilgrimage here in Los Angeles from All Souls Catholic Church to our spiritual home Cathedral here our lady the Angels cathedral downtown so we're going to be participating that I encourage you to join us right so this whole idea of pilgrimage it's important to participate in this once again returning home so regular reception of the sacraments pilgrimage and and then the third thing
• 26:00 - 26:30 because there's always questions about this indulgences with the Jubilee year there are indulgences specifically a plinary Indulgence a full Indulgence connected with this Jubilee year now if you want to read about the indulgences you can go to the catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 1471 to 1479 you could write that down for a little reference it talks all about indulgences but let me give you just a basic little review of indulgences because there's a lot of
• 26:30 - 27:00 Confusion And like I said the Catholic church is not immune from corruption there is a history here but in its truth indulgences are a blessing and not a corruption or evil thing what an Indulgence refers to is that when we sin there are consequences and no matter what sin we commit God can forgive us that's the power of confession but there are still consequences that we still have to wrestle with and a great image is like like this a little kid playing in the
• 27:00 - 27:30 street with his friends throwing the ball around all of a sudden they break the neighbor's window Mrs Lopez's window shattered what they go to Mrs I'm sorry we we broke your window and Mrs Lopez full of love says of course I forgive you right she's merciful so they're forgiven but guess what there's still a broken window and it's going to take some time maybe they're going to have to work a little extra to get some money to help pay for that like there's reparation that need needs to take place to kind of heal what's been broken and
• 27:30 - 28:00 so on a spiritual level when we sin God can forgive us like that once again sacrament of confession but there's spiritual damage and it takes time for that spiritual damage to heal and so indulgences is the church in her power the Keys of the Kingdom shared with Peter exercising that power to bestow Graces upon us for healing what we call the temporal punishment dut du to sin fixing that broken window does that make
• 28:00 - 28:30 sense and so there's conditions to meet that Indulgence and it's a little technical we can look this up you can look it up on your own but the basic requirements are you perform a specific act and in this Jubilee year they say you can go on pilgrimage perform a work of Mercy or an act of penance so if you were to do any of those three things and then go to confession within 20 days before or after receive the Eucharist but within 20 days before before or after pray for the intentions of the
• 28:30 - 29:00 Holy Father and by the way have total Detachment from venial sin that's the big one it's the kicker total Detachment from sin you get a full plinary Indulgence which is awesome and so we should reconsider that because this is something that we don't even think about a lot of times more common acts works for Indulgence a plinary Indulgence include 30 minutes of adoration we're pretty much about to do that if I stop talking read scripture for 30 minutes that's another act which has a plinary
• 29:00 - 29:30 Indulgence connected with it or praying the rosary with at least one other person it's another act that has a plinary Indulgence connected with it once again if you go to confession and receive communion and pray for the Holy Father and his intentions and have that Detachment from sin and so my friends the point is this it's a jubilee Year and God wants to restore and to deepen our relationship with him he wants to take us back to Eden but to be honest he wants to go
• 29:30 - 30:00 even further than Eden he wants to fill us with his very life and his love by Grace this is something above and beyond what Even Adam and Eve experienced and so my friends there are Treasures in store for us and I think it's awesome that you're here and continue to pray as we now go before our Lord and Jesus in The Blessed Sacrament as we open our hearts a new to his life and his love ask him for help ask ask him whatever's on your heart bring it to him
• 30:00 - 30:30 he wants to hear all about it he wants you to have like an amazing Jubilee year of Liberation and restoration