Pauline Year

The Year of St. Paul.

Welcome to our Pauline Year resources page - celebrating the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Saint Paul the Apostle.

Pope Benedict XVI announced the Pauline Year during the Vespers Service in Rome at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on June 28, 2007. The Pauline Year, also known as "The Jubilee Year of St. Paul," began on June 28, 2008 and concluded June 29, 2009. Our specialty store features products for use throughout the Year of St. Paul and includes resources for you to learn more about St. Paul, the Pauline Year and to deepen your Catholic faith in years to come. St. Paul, as he said so many times and in so many ways in his letters, lived to show us Christ and to help lead us to salvation.

Icon of St. Paul the Apostle

Designed to celebrate the bimillennium of the birth of St Paul, which historians place between the years 7 and 10 AD, the Pauline Year, in the words of Pope Benedict, will include "a series of liturgical, cultural and ecumenical events, as well as various pastoral and social initiatives, all inspired by Pauline spirituality."

The Year of St. Paul began with a solemn Vespers Service on Saturday, June 28, 2008 presided over by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox churches, joined Pope Benedict XVI for this special liturgy and has proclaimed a Year of St. Paul to be observed in the separated Eastern Orthodox churches as well. The Supreme Pontiff concluded the jubilee year with the celebration of Mass on June 29, 2009.