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Four Holy Doors of Mercy opened in archdiocese
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Bishop William Justice blessed the Year of Mercy Holy Door at St. Raphael Mission Church on Jan. 10.
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St. Patrick’s Seminary and University president-rector Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens blessed and opened the Holy Door at St. Patrick’s Seminary Chapel Jan. 10.
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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, shown here Dec. 24 at the Holy Door at San Quentin State Prison, named places of pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
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Archbishop Cordileone opened the Holy Door at St. Mary’s Cathedral Dec. 13.
Pilgrims receive plenary indulgence during Year of Mercy CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
With the opening of the Holy Door at St. Raphael Mission Church and at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University chapel on Jan. 10, all four doors of mercy are open in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for the Year of Mercy. Pilgrims to the Holy Doors may receive a plenary indulgence during the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.
In the month since Pope Francis swung open the “holy door” at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome signaling the opening of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy and its invitation to pilgrims everywhere to enter into a “living experience of the closeness of the Father,” local bishops around the world have followed the pope’s lead. During the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis delegated to each bishop or archbishop of a diocese or archdio-
cese the power to designate local Holy Doors of Mercy as pilgrimage sites. On Dec. 13, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and a crowd in the hundreds walked through the doors of St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, the first of four holy doors designated by the archbishop for the Jubilee Year of Mercy which opened Dec. 8, 2015, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and concludes Nov. 20, 2016, the feast of Christ the King.
St. Raphael Mission Church in San Rafael, the chapel at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park and the chapel at San Quentin State Prison were also chosen as pilgrimage sites by the archbishop who called the year “an extraordinary moment of grace and spiritual renewal” in his cathedral homily. “Jesus Christ is the face of the
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