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URBI ET ORBI
1 January 2000
The clock of history strikes an important hour: at this moment the Year 2000 begins, and we enter into a new millennium. For believers this is the year of the Great Jubilee.
A Happy New Year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world!
As we cross the threshold of the New Year I would like to knock at the door of every home, to bring to each of you my cordial good wishes: a Happy New Year to everyone in the light which shines out from Bethlehem upon the whole universe!
I wish you a year filled with peace: the peace proclaimed by the Angels on that Holy Night; the peace of Christ, who out of love became a brother to every human being!
I wish you a year filled with serenity and happiness: may you always be certain of God’s love for us. As he did two thousand years ago, Christ comes today with his saving Gospel to guide the uncertain and faltering steps of peoples and nations, leading them towards a future of true hope.
I ask him to bless this moment of festivity and good wishes, that it may be the promising beginning of a new millennium filled with joy and peace. Let us enter the Year 2000 with our eyes fixed on the mystery of the Incarnation.
Christ, yesterday, today and for ever.
To him belong time and the ages.
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Pope John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see John Paul II (disambiguation), Pope John Paul II (disambiguation), Saint John Paul II (disambiguation), JP2 (disambiguation), and Karol Wojtyla (disambiguation).
Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II; Polish: Jan Paweł II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła, Polish:[ˈkarɔlˈjuzɛvvɔjˈtɨwa];[b] 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
In his youth, Wojtyła dabbled in stage acting. He graduated with excellent grades from an all-boys high school in Wadowice, Poland, in 1938, soon after which World War II broke out. During the war, to avoid being kidnapped and sent off to a German forced labour camp, he signed up for work in harsh conditions in a quarry. Wojtyła eventually took up acting and developed a love for the profession and participated at a local theatre. The linguistically skilled Wojtyła wanted to study Polish at university. Encouraged by a conversation with Adam Stefan Sapieha, he decided to study theology and become a priest. Eventually, Wojtyła rose to the position of Ar