Jubilee Cross Quotes

Merendsen just grins. “Because I’m in love with her, Captain. Because she’s stubborn, and kind and strong and smart, and I don’t want to go a day of my life without her, not ever again.” Jubilee crosses over

What is so fascinating about this first use of the term is that you can count back fifty days and you will find day one was the first day of the week, as well as the day Israel crossed over the Red Sea and escaped from Egypt. So in fact, the first Jubilee was a Jubilee of days. This also gives us the first biblical example of what later would be known as Firstfruits.

Former unbelievers who respond positively to the Gospel before entering eternity will never need to have any part in the eternally burning Lake of Fire. Anyone can make today be the day he or she chooses to cast his or her sins on the cross, just as the children of Israel cast their sacrifices for sins on the altar, and allow Jesus to bear the burden. His death, burial, and resurrection have already taken place. The work is already finished. All a person needs to do now is trust Jesus for salvation. It doesn’t get any simpler than that.

In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on the one side his won image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat.

Historian Garry Wills later captured the 1950s liberal Catholic’s affinity for “steel and glass fish-shaped churches, and driftwood-swirl Madonnas, and wrought-iron abstract tracery for the stations of the cross (artily photographed in Jubilee).”31