Wednesday, February 26 at 5 p.m. starts the cycle of lectures entitled The words of the Jubilee, 9 meetings to deepen with some of the top theologians and historians of the Church, the Ordinary Jubilee 2025 - Pilgrims of hope at the Auditorium of the Opera della Primarziale Pisana.
The result of a deep scientific and institutional synergy between the Opera della Primaziale Pisana and the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, the first appointment has as protagonist Monsignor Orazio Pepe, Secretary of the Fabbrica di San Pietro.
After the institutional greetings of Andrea Maestrelli, President of the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, of H.E. Mons. Giovanni Paolo Benotto, Archbishop of Pisa, and Father Marek Inglot SJ, President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, Monsignor Orazio Pepe will focus on the word «Factory» holding a conference entitled The Factory of Saint Peter at the service of the Jubilee and thus offering a testimony from the heart of the Jubilee events.
The next appointment is already set for 28 March at 5 p.m. at the Museo delle Sinopie. After the institutional greetings of Andrea Maestrelli, President of the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, H.E.R. Monsignor Giovanni Paolo Benotto, Archbishop of Pisa, and Pierantonio Piatti, Secretary of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, H.E.R. Monsignor Aurelio García Macías, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, will give a lecture entitled Porta Santa. Liturgy in the Jubilees.
Third meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, 21 May at 5 p.m. in the G.Toniolo Auditorium. The appointment (also present Andrea Maestrelli and Marek Inglot, president of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences) is a unique opportunity to listen to an authoritative voice, able to illuminate a rich and complex theme, sometimes the subject of reductive or partial readings. An opportunity for believers and non-believers to rediscover the Jubilee not only as an ecclesial event and moment of faith, but also as a historical and cultural phenomenon of great importance.
What does it mean today to speak of "indulgence"? What is the profound, historical and theological meaning of this word that has accompanied the experience of the Jubilee for centuries? Fr. Rocco Ronzani, Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives, will try to answer these questions with his intervention "The Jubilee as indulgence" promoted in the context of the review The Words of the Jubilee, organized by the Opera della Primaziale in collaboration with the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, the Vatican body committed to promoting dialogue between the Church and the scientific community on the level of historical research. Rocco Ronzani since July 2024 holds the post of Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives (until recently Vatican Secret Archive) where documents and records are kept that tell centuries of history of the papacy and the activity of the Holy See.
The lectures will continue periodically until December.
Admission free while places are available.
For further info and meetings: https://www.opapisa.it/.
