Joan Lewis - A Holy Year in Rome

Acclaim for A Holy Year in Rome

The practice of making a pilgrimage to Rome has always held a place of special significance in the Churchs celebration of a Holy Year. By means of her comprehensive guide to celebrating the Jubilee of Mercy in Rome, Joan Lewis provides each pilgrim with thoughtful insights and practical details that are essential for a fruitful pilgrimage to the Eternal City. Every page gives evidence to her great love for Rome and her fervent desire that each sojourner should experience the Jubilee not as a mere tourist but, most of all, as a pilgrim ready to be a witness to the great mercy of God.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical
Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization

Leave it to Joan to make us feel at home in Rome! For those of you able to accept the invitation of Pope Francis to come as pilgrims to the city of Peter and Paul, make sure you bring Joans book with you!

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York

Few people have spent as much time as has Joan Lewis in reporting from Rome. In A Holy Year in Rome she applies her formidable writing skills, her impressive knowledge of the Eternal City, and her love of our Catholic Faith. Anyone visiting Rome during this year of grace needs to have with them Joans book in order to make the most of the time. Thank you, Joan, for making Rome all the more accessible to all of us, first-time visitors as well as those who have enjoyed the city for decades.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington

I have been going to Joan Lewis for at least thirty-five years for practical guidance around Rome, and what she is hearing on the streets and from her many contacts in every sort of Vatican office. Readers will be delighted by her newest guide to this city, through which thousands will be in touch with what her many friends have been learning from her for years. Joan is an invaluable guide for two reasons: first, she loves Rome, and as an American has been soaking up its daily joys for more than three decades. Second, she loves those who ask guidance from her and presents Rome in an informal, personal, and friendly way, like a companion walking at your side. Enjoy!

Michael Novak, Witness to Vatican II
and author of The Open Church (1964)

Remarkable! In fact, extraordinary! The treasures in this book are as immeasurable as those found in the quaint streets, famous churches, and charming people of Rome! If youve been to Rome and the Vatican, A Holy Year in Rome will make you yearn to go back tomorrow with a deep newfound knowledge. If you have yet to visit the Eternal City, dont worry through beautiful descriptive explanations, Joan Lewis makes the city come alive. I felt as though I had not only the best personal tour guide on this spiritual pilgrimage but also a friend by my side, proud to show me the riches of the enchanted city she calls home. Definitely a must read for anyone planning a pilgrimage to Rome (even if it is not during the extraordinary Holy Year)!

Kelly Wahlquist, Founder of WINE: Women
In the New Evangelization and author of Created
to Relate: Gods Design for Peace and Joy

The book we have been waiting for! A labor of love by Rome expert Joan Lewis, who has for decades lived and breathed the Eternal City. These pages exude Joans signature warmth as she enchants us with luscious descriptions and immeasurable insights, sharing the real meaning of pilgrimage in her fascinating one-of-a-kind pilgrims guide to the Holy Year in Rome. I highly recommend this book!

Donna-Marie Cooper OBoyle, EWTN TV host,
speaker, and best-selling author of
twenty books, including The Kiss of Jesus

There is a good reason why Joan Lewis is one of the most popular and well-received regular contributors to my radio program. Simply put, no one knows Rome quite like Joan. Her book A Holy Year in Rome is another great example of her knowledge and love of the Eternal City and, more importantly, her knowledge and love of all things Catholic. A Holy Year in Rome is the perfect gift for anyone who desires to learn more about the Church and the place it calls home. It sounds clich, but thanks to the beautifully detailed descriptions, explanations, and summaries of the different sights, sounds, and sacred places, combined with Joans extensive knowledge and insiders tips, A Holy Year in Rome is, as that old commercial reminds us, the next-best thing to being there.

Teresa Tomeo, Media expert, motivational speaker,
best-selling author, syndicated Catholic talk-show host
of Catholic Connection and The Catholic View for Women

There is no better guide to Pope Franciss Rome in the Holy Year of Mercy than Joan Lewis. She is, although young at heart, a living witness of Church history and the uncrowned Queen of the Vaticanisti, the Vatican-based journalists. More than that, she is a living encyclopedia. Whatever youve always wanted to learn about Rome, the Vatican, the Pope, and the most inner secrets of the Church, Joan knows it all. Nobody could have written a better guide to the Eternal City. She shares her rich insight and knowledge with us in this breathtaking, deeply profound, and always reliable book, which invites us to follow the Popes invitation, to become pilgrims and to experience the beauty of Rome and the tenderness of God in the Year of Mercy!

Michael Hesemann, co-author of My Brother, the Pope

Distinguished by her longstanding love of all things Roman, as well as her deep understanding of the Church and its rich history, Joan Lewis is the ideal guide for any English-speaking pilgrim to the Eternal City seeking to enter more deeply into the Year of Mercy. No one knows Rome better. I am thrilled that A Holy Year in Rome makes it possible for all of us to benefit from her spiritual and practical insights.

Bernie Hebda, Coadjutor Bishop of Newark

J OAN L EWIS

A H OLY Y EAR
IN
ROME

The Complete Pilgrims Guide for the Jubilee of Mercy

SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS
Manchester, New Hampshire

Copyright 2015 by Joan Lewis

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Cover design by Perceptions Design Studio.

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Unless otherwise noted, biblical references in this book are taken from the Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1965, 1966 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America copyright 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church : Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lewis, Joan (Rome Bureau Chief for EWTN) author.

Title: A holy year in Rome : the complete pilgrims guide for the Jubilee of

Mercy / Joan Lewis.

Description: Manchester, New Hampshire : Sophia Institute Press, 2016. |