The Eucharistic celebration was led by Metropolitan Archbishop Arjan Dodaj from St. Paul’s Cathedral in Tirana.

A large group of Catholic faithful attended the opening of the Jubilee Year, with hope and God’s grace being the overreaching theme of the Ordinary Jubilee that is celebrated every 25 years.

The Catholic Church held the March of the Citizens of Peace. After the pilgrimage behind the cross, which symbolizes Christ’s victory over evil, the faithful joined the mass to open the Jubilee year.

The Jubilee is a time of transformation from war to peace, from debt to pardon, from conflict to reconciliation, from sin to grace, and from death to life.

During the Jubilee, all truly repented believers, moved by a spirit of charity, purified through the sacrament of confession, refreshed by Holy Communion, and who pray according to the Holy Father’s instructions to gain full forgiveness.

Plenary indulgence is the great forgiveness of sins and guilt applicable to oneself or to the souls in purgatory in the form of penance.

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