The Jubilee of Hope 2025 gives Catholics many opportunities to receive reconciliation. During that sacrament, God forgives our sins and reconciles us to him.
Many Catholics might not know what sin is. In a new video, Father Paul Manning, vicar for evangelization for the Paterson Diocese, paraphrases the Catechism of the Catholic Church, calling sin an “offense against God,” “a failure to love God and to love one another,” and “an injury to human solidarity or the human community to which we belong.”
Father Manning spoke about sin and purgatory in a video that is part of a series in English and Spanish that the diocese created about the holy year. The series covers topics such as the Holy Door and Jubilee indulgence, one way to receive God’s forgiveness. In the sin and purgatory video, Father Manning talked with Joana Schmidt, associate director of diocesan catechesis.
Catholics can receive God’s forgiveness in reconciliation and the Eucharist. But they must also repair the broken relationships their sins caused, in part through acts of charity, penance, and prayer.
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Watch Father Manning explain purgatory, which he called “not a place but a purification process,” during which the penitent’s sins “are purged.”
There are 12 long-form videos and 11 shorter 1-minute episodes. Watch the video series on Paterson’s Jubilee homepage.
