Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela calls Holy Year ‘a time of grace and encounter’ – Catholic World Report

The Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela emphasized the graces of the current Jubilee Year at the shrine of St. James the Apostle, in a homily on Sunday, the saint’s feast day. In his July 25 homily, Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio of Santiago de Compostela called the Holy Year “a time of grace, healing and encounter,” according to Vatican News. In Barrio’s homily, he highlighted the unifying benefits to praying to St. James.  He said that the saint could help the people of Spain maintain a “fraternal coexistence.” The feast of Saint James the Apostle fell on a Sunday this year, which means that pilgrims may gain an indulgence by visiting through the cathedral’s Holy Door. The beginning of the Jubilee Year of Compostela in Spain launched on December 31, 2020, and was set to continue for a year. However, because of the pandemic, Pope Francis decided it would continue through 2022. This theme of this year’s jubilee is “Come out of your land! The Apostle is waiting for you!” The name comes from Pope Francis’s letter to Archbishop Barrio last year in which he wrote: “Following in the footsteps of the Apostle, we leave our self, those certainties to which we cling, but with a clear objective in mind, we are not wandering beings, always revolving around ourselves without getting anywhere.”

Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela calls Holy Year ‘a time of grace and encounter’ – Catholic World Report