Liturgical year dedicated to?

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Each year the pontif dedicates the Liturgical year … for example "the year of the Eucharist, " “the Spirit”, etc.

Does anyone know what this year is dedicated to???

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Actually, for clarification purposes, it’s not a “Liturgical Year”. The Liturgical Year begins on the First Sunday of Advent and ends on the Solemnity of Christ the King (close to Thanksgiving weekend here in the US).

This special Year of St. Paul marks the 2,000th Anniversary of the birth of the Apostle to the Gentiles and it is pretty much a Jubilee Year, so to speak. Now, what the Church is doing to mark the occasion is that it is making Sunday, January 25th, the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul (it is the actual feast day, but, this year, it is trumping whatever Sunday in ordinary time it would have been).
 
Actually, for clarification purposes, it’s not a “Liturgical Year”. The Liturgical Year begins on the First Sunday of Advent and ends on the Solemnity of Christ the King (close to Thanksgiving weekend here in the US).

**In the ROMAN rite, it does. (Ambrosian, for example, has 6 Sundays in Advent.)

In the Byzantine Churches, the Lliturgical Year starts on 1 Sept.**
 
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Actually, for clarification purposes, it’s not a “Liturgical Year”. The Liturgical Year begins on the First Sunday of Advent and ends on the Solemnity of Christ the King (close to Thanksgiving weekend here in the US).

**In the ROMAN rite, it does. (Ambrosian, for example, has 6 Sundays in Advent.)

In the Byzantine Churches, the Lliturgical Year starts on 1 Sept.**
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Sorry about that. We don’t have any Eastern Churches in my neck of the woods.

Now, regarding the Holy Father making dedications on a yearly basis, I don’t think that is entirely true. The last time that we had a dedicated year was October 2004 to October 2005, the Year of the Eucharist, which started under the late Pope John Paul II and ended with the Synod on the Eucharist (which he had called) and presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.

The reason why this is the Pauline Jubilee is because it marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of St. Paul.
 
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