Talk:Year of the Eucharist
Events Section? edit
Should there be a section concerning the events within the Church that occured during the Year of the Eucharist? --Elliskev 01:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I was looking for a site, some public domain pictures would also be nice. Dominick (TALK) 12:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I like the change you made to the 'Notable Events'. It flows better. --Elliskev 20:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Even though the stub is gone it still can use a little more meat. Dominick (TALK) 19:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. --Elliskev 19:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
How exactly does this work? edit
How do these Papally-proclaimed years work? At first, I thought it was just a designation by the Pope for each year of his Pontificate. Like, the first year of his pontificate would be for one thing, the second year for another. It would explain why the Year of the Eucharist began and ended in Octobers, since that was the year of his election. But them I'm hearing now that the Holy Father now is declaring June 2008 to June 2009 the Pauline Year (in honour of Saint Paul's birth). If it were to mark the years of his Pontificate, it would have began in April instead of June. It can't be years according to the Gregorian or Liturgical Calendars, since the former starts in January and the latter starts in December. When do these years typically end and begin? Is there a list somewhere of all the Papal years? The Vatican website doesn't seem to have anything on this. The closest thing there are pages dedicated to the individual years.J.J. Bustamante 18:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
- Every year is actually dedicated to the Incarnation of the Divine Word; that's why we enumerate 2009, 2010 and so forth (although if referred to the Birth of Christ, the enumeration happens to be incorrect). Yet the Pope has dicided to dedicate some years to other specific mysteries or saints. This he does for various reasons: the glory of God, the prosperty of some pious practices, the understanding of some kind of theology, the joy of the pious people, Church politics... A practice that is afaik quite young (except the Roman Jubilees) and does not even now extend to all years. Any "designated year" needs a papal decision which is extraordinary even though it seems to extend even to a majority of the recent years. Not only the Pope can do this, but diocesan bishops as well - of course, once the Pope has dedicated a year to something, no bishop will dare or even want to dedicate it to something else. Only the Holy Year of Santiago de Compostela will happen whenever St. James falls on a Sunday.
- An ordinary Roman Jubilee begins and ends on December 25th. 2000 was an exeption; John Paul II extended it by January 6th, 2001 to celebrate the actual entry into the 3rd millenium. The other years begin and end whenever the Pope orders them to do so.
- I'm not sure if I exclude anything, but in making a list, I think I could say that there were the Jubilees every 25th year (some of which couldn't be hold, some were hold extraordinarily) and the Marian year of 1954. The time any Ecumenical Council was held was certainly a specific time for the Church as well. Other than that, this practice something like began under John Paul II with
- 1983: Extraordinary Jubilee (resurrection)
- 1987: Marian year
- 1997: the Person of Jesus Christ
- 1998: the Holy Spirit
- 1999: God the Father, all three in preparation of
- 2000: the Great Jubilee
- 2004: the Rosary, in preparation of
- 2005: the Eucharist (October 04 by October 05), followed in the diocese I inhabit by
- 2006: Vocations, diocesan: an example for a diocesan use of such practice
- 2008: St. Paul (June 08 by June 09)
- 2009: Priests (June 09 by June 10)
- As can be seen, the Pope does by no means give a "motto" to every year. --84.154.91.129 (talk) 21:35, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Eucharistic' attitude edit
Dear friends, please add a reference for this term. Best --Weissmann (talk) 03:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)