THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE ON THE JUBILEE YEAR 3000
AN ECUMENICAL INITIATIVE FOR THE JUBILEE YEAR 3000: AN INVITATION TO ALL CHRISTIANS
THE PONTIFICAL MILLENNIUM TIME CAPSULE
VATICAN CITY
A DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO HIS HOLINESS, POPE JOHN PAUL II, BY THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE ON THE JUBILEE YEAR 3000. INSPIRED BY THE BIBLE'S THEOCENTRIC VIEW OF HISTORY AND BY TWENTIETH CENTURY ECUMENISM, THE CONFERENCE PROPOSED THAT THE HOLY SEE OF ROME EXTEND A SPECIAL MILLENNIAL INVITATION TO ALL CHRISTIANS TO PARTAKE IN A 33 YEAR ECUMENICAL ENTERPRISE THAT WILL CONCLUDE WITH THE DEDICATION OF THE PONTIFICAL MILLENNIUM TIME CAPSULE IN VATICAN CITY AT THE GREAT JUBILEE OF EASTER IN 2033. TO BE BURIED UNDER THE CENTRE OF ST. PETER'S SQUARE, THIS "ENVELOPE FOR A MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE" WILL REMAIN IN THE CUSTODY OF THE HOLY SEE FOR NEARLY TEN CENTURIES UNTIL IT IS UNSEALED BY THE SUCCESSOR OF SAINT PETER AT THE GREAT JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 3000 SO THAT HUMANITY LIVING AT THE TURN OF THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM CAN RECEIVE LETTERS OF TESTIMONY WRITTEN BY THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST LIVING AT THE TURN OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE FUTURE AGE FROM A CHRISTIAN GENERATION THAT WITNESSED AN UNPRECEDENTED CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND AN UNPARALLELED CENTURY OF HORRORS AND WHOSE MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE WILL CONTAIN PERSONAL TESTIMONIES ABOUT PAST AND PRESENT EVENTS OF HISTORY IN WHICH SIGNS OF THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND AND THE COMING KINGDOM OF GOD ARE RECOGNIZED.
THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE ON THE JUBILEE YEAR 3000
AN ECUMENICAL INITIATIVE FOR THE JUBILEE YEAR 3000: AN INVITATION TO ALL CHRISTIANS
THE PONTIFICAL MILLENNIUM TIME CAPSULE
VATICAN CITY
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