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By Harry Murphy
During December, Atlanta Catholics will be able to combine their
Christmas shopping and make a Holy Year Pilgrimage.
Sacred Heart, the downtown church at Peachtree and Ivy Streets
with the twin spires, will hold a Holy Hour from 4 until 5 p.m. on the first
three Saturdays in Advent, Dec. 3, 10 and 17.
Catholics who make pilgrimages to designated jubilee churches such
as Sacred Heart and combine them with repentance, prayer and reception of the
sacraments will receive a plenary indulgence.
A plenary indulgence removes all the temporal punishment, such as
purgatorial atonement, due to sin after forgiveness. This Jubilee Holy Year
– March 25, 1983 to April 22, 1984 – was designated by Pope John Paul
II to mark the 1950th anniversary of the “saving death of
Christ,” the Redemption which is the central mystery of Christian faith
and the Good News for all mankind. The year’s beginning was the Feast of
the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary that Christ had
become flesh in her womb, and its end will be Easter.
Confessions will be heard in conjunction with the Holy Hours. Mr.
William Krape, director of music at Sacred Heart, will provide music for the
services.
Traditionally, Holy Year pilgrimages have been to Rome. In this
case, however, the pope wishes them to take place within the local churches to
open up to as many people as possible the opportunity for renewal and
conversion to God.
(For further information call Rev. Dan O’Connor, 522-6800.)
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