Celebrating 2000 Welcome to this home page for the celebration of Jubilee 2000 according to the wish of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II! To view (1) the Pope's apostolic letter 'Tertio Millennio Adveniente'; (2) the history of Jubilee; and (3) the Pope's prayer for the current year, please click here. To read a summary of the Pope's apostolic letter "The Coming Third Millennium", click here now. 1997 - The Year of Jesus, God the Son *Home Page of Jesus, God the Son/ 1998 - The Year of God the Holy Spirit *Home Page of God the Holy Spirit/ 1999 - The Year of God the Father *Home Page of God the Father/ 2000 - The Year of the Most Holy Trinity *Home Page of the Most Holy Trinity/ Thank God for the Mystery of Perichoresis (in which the Three Divine Persons perfectly interpenetrate Each Other)[1], the year, day or moment of the One Person is also the year, day or moment of the Other Two Persons. Although we are now in the year of the Most Holy Trinity, we also celebrate the year of Each Divine Person of the Most Holy Trinity. In fact, every year in salvation history is at the same time a year of God the Father, of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit, as well as that of the Most Holy Trinity. We embrace both the strict and broad interpretations here. Nonetheless, to obtain special grace from the Most Holy Trinity, we will concentrate as much as possible on the current year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1]Trinitarian Perichoresis is "the reciprocal presence and interpenetration or coinherence of the three persons of the Trinity. St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-89) used the term which acquired its full technical meaning with St. John Damascene (ca.675-ca.749)." (Gerald O'Collins, S.J., and Edward Farrugia, S.J., A Concise Dictionary of Theology, p.180) In other words, we can affirm that in God the Father, there is the fullest presence of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit; in God the Son, there is the fullest presence of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit; and in God the Holy Spirit, there is the fullness presence of God the Father and God the Son. While the Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, there is but one God in Three Divine Persons. The 11th Council of Toledo states: "We must not, however, consider these three persons separable, since we believe that no one before the other, no one after the other, no one without the other ever existed or did anything. For, they are found inseparable both in that which they are, and in that which they do, because between the generating Father and the generated Son and the proceeding Holy Spirit we believe that there was no interval of time in which either the begetter at any time preceded the begotten, or the begotten was lacking to the begetter, or the proceeding Holy Spirit appeared after the Father or the Son. Therefore, for this reason we proclaim and believe that this Trinity is inseparable and unconfused." (DS 532: Michael O'Carrroll, C.S.Sp., Trinitas: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity [Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1987] p.69)
Welcome to this home page for the celebration of Jubilee 2000 according to the wish of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II!
To view (1) the Pope's apostolic letter 'Tertio Millennio Adveniente'; (2) the history of Jubilee; and (3) the Pope's prayer for the current year, please click here. To read a summary of the Pope's apostolic letter "The Coming Third Millennium", click here now.
1997 - The Year of Jesus, God the Son
*Home Page of Jesus, God the Son/
1998 - The Year of God the Holy Spirit
*Home Page of God the Holy Spirit/
1999 - The Year of God the Father
*Home Page of God the Father/
2000 - The Year of the Most Holy Trinity
*Home Page of the Most Holy Trinity/
Thank God for the Mystery of Perichoresis (in which the Three Divine Persons perfectly interpenetrate Each Other)[1], the year, day or moment of the One Person is also the year, day or moment of the Other Two Persons. Although we are now in the year of the Most Holy Trinity, we also celebrate the year of Each Divine Person of the Most Holy Trinity. In fact, every year in salvation history is at the same time a year of God the Father, of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit, as well as that of the Most Holy Trinity. We embrace both the strict and broad interpretations here. Nonetheless, to obtain special grace from the Most Holy Trinity, we will concentrate as much as possible on the current year.
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[1]Trinitarian Perichoresis is "the reciprocal presence and interpenetration or coinherence of the three persons of the Trinity. St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-89) used the term which acquired its full technical meaning with St. John Damascene (ca.675-ca.749)." (Gerald O'Collins, S.J., and Edward Farrugia, S.J., A Concise Dictionary of Theology, p.180)
In other words, we can affirm that in God the Father, there is the fullest presence of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit; in God the Son, there is the fullest presence of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit; and in God the Holy Spirit, there is the fullness presence of God the Father and God the Son. While the Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, there is but one God in Three Divine Persons.
The 11th Council of Toledo states: "We must not, however, consider these three persons separable, since we believe that no one before the other, no one after the other, no one without the other ever existed or did anything. For, they are found inseparable both in that which they are, and in that which they do, because between the generating Father and the generated Son and the proceeding Holy Spirit we believe that there was no interval of time in which either the begetter at any time preceded the begotten, or the begotten was lacking to the begetter, or the proceeding Holy Spirit appeared after the Father or the Son. Therefore, for this reason we proclaim and believe that this Trinity is inseparable and unconfused." (DS 532: Michael O'Carrroll, C.S.Sp., Trinitas: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity [Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1987] p.69)