A door at each of Rome’s four major basilicas — St. Peter’s Basilica, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, and the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major — has been designated a Holy Door for the Jubilee Year of Hope 2025.
What are the Holy Doors — and how do they relate to the Jubilee Year?
Father Manning, diocesan vicar for evangelization for the Paterson Diocese, asks Catholics to think about doors in their lives.
“Every day, we’re walking out the door to a new day and new adventure and walking indoors to a safe home. So, doors are signs of passage and movement and journey. A holy door is meant to evoke in us the sense that we’re always on pilgrimage — that we’re pilgrims on a journey to our final destination: life with God,” Father Manning says.
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Father Manning speaks in a video about the Holy Doors, part of a series in English and Spanish that the diocese created about the holy year. The series covers topics such as indulgences and pilgrimages. In the Holy Door video, Father Manning talks with Joana Schmidt, associate director of diocesan catechesis.
Pilgrims who walk through a Holy Door can gain a plenary indulgence, the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.
“If we enter through one of four holy doors in Rome, with a real intention to repent with the intention and act of going to confession and receiving the Eucharist, and also with the intention and act of praying for the pope, we can gain a plenary indulgence,” Father Manning says.
There are 12 long-form videos about various aspects of the Jubilee Year and 11 shorter 1-minute episodes. Watch the video about Holy Doors:
