{"id":13562,"date":"2023-01-01T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:49:49","slug":"the-long-holy-year-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/the-long-holy-year-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Holy Year Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">Y<\/span>esterday,  amid a drenching rain, the Puerta Santa, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?s=holy+door\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Holy Doors<\/a>, of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela were closed. These doors are open only during the Jacobean Holy Year or a Jubilee Year declared by the Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCatedraldeSantiago%2Fvideos%2F5576849855767991%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what is a Jacobean Holy Year? Simply, it&#8217;s any year when the Feast of Saint James, 25 July, occurs on a Sunday. The most recent Jacobean Holy Year of 2021 was &#8220;extended&#8221; through the end of 2022 by Pope Francis as a concession to the the COVID plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During those years, pilgrims can obtain a plenary indulgence for entering the cathedral through these doors and making a visit to the Saint&#8217;s crypt. Confession and Mass are also required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what is a plenary indulgence? Indulgences are obtained by certain prayers, reading of the Bible, or acts of charity. These reduce the time the soul spends in purgatory before attaining heaven. A &#8220;plenary&#8221; indulgence reduces the time to zero, and may be obtained either for oneself or for a deceased person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m so very grateful to have walked through these Holy Doors in the Jubilee year of Mercy in 2016 and again during the (extended) Jacobean Holy Year in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/F2703AF1-5B52-4DF7-B5A8-9029A7F71F70-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/F2703AF1-5B52-4DF7-B5A8-9029A7F71F70-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/F2703AF1-5B52-4DF7-B5A8-9029A7F71F70-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/F2703AF1-5B52-4DF7-B5A8-9029A7F71F70-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/F2703AF1-5B52-4DF7-B5A8-9029A7F71F70-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Francine and I enter the Holy Doors, May 2022. (Photo by Callie Starks)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next Jacobean Holy Year is 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC07142-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archicompostela.es\/mons-barrio-la-puerta-santa-como-simbolo-se-ha-cerrado-pero-sigue-siempre-abierta-la-puerta-que-es-cristo-camino-verdad-y-vida\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archicompostela.es\/mons-barrio-la-puerta-santa-como-simbolo-se-ha-cerrado-pero-sigue-siempre-abierta-la-puerta-que-es-cristo-camino-verdad-y-vida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bishop Barrio closes the Holy Doors, 2022<\/a>: &#8220;The Holy Door as a symbol has been closed, but the Door that is Christ, Way, Truth and Life is always open&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, amid a drenching rain, the Puerta Santa, or Holy Doors, of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela were closed. These doors are open only during the Jacobean Holy Year or a Jubilee Year declared by the Pope. So what is a Jacobean Holy Year? Simply, it&#8217;s any year when the Feast of Saint James, 25 July, occurs on a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francine","category-liminal-space","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13566,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}