Philadelphia’s Basilica Shrine to Seal Holy Door, Signaling Start of Global Year of Prayer and Reconciliation
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| 01/26/2024
The Jubilee is a year of pilgrimage generally occurring once every 25 years
The Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Philadelphia’s Germantown section will symbolically seal its Holy Door on Monday, January 29, at 12:05 p.m., to signal the start of a year of preparation for the Church’s “Pilgrims of Hope” Jubilee in 2025.
Also known as a Holy Year, the Jubilee is a year of pilgrimage generally occurring once every 25 years. Catholics are called to prepare themselves with a year dedicated to prayer and reconciliation. The sealing of the Holy Door is symbolic of this reflective time – the Door will be “unsealed” at the start of the Jubilee.
Father John Kettelberger, CM, will bless the Holy Door and officiate Mass inside the Basilica Shrine. Worshippers are encouraged to attend the service and continue visiting the Basilica Shrine throughout the coming year. Prior to Sealing the Holy Door, attendees will pray the Perpetual Novena, a weekly Marian devotion that originated at the Basilica Shrine on December 8, 1930.
The Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is located at 500 East Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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