Jesus year

English

Etymology

Referencing the Christian religious leader Jesus Christ, who is traditionally said to have been killed and resurrected at the age of 33 (although this chronology is disputed).

Noun

Jesus year (plural Jesus years)

The year of a person's life when they are 33 years old, said to coincide with achieving success and personal growth.
- 2012 April 6, Chris Koentges, Shelley Youngblut, “The rise of the Jesus Year”, in The Globe and Mail‎^[1], Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-24:
  It's not insignificant that on the last day of her Jesus Year, Ms. Sundel ended her blog post by quoting Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs, who consistently interrupted his business ventures to embark upon spiritual quests: "You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
- 2012 May 12, Douglas Todd, “The 'Jesus Year:' Its time has come”, in Vancouver Sun‎^[2], Vancouver, B.C.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:
  The 'Jesus Year' is now also becoming the age in which young people – not necessarily only Christians, but everyone in this multicultural society – decide it's time to get serious about life, time to accomplish something.
- 2022, Lou Perez, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy, New York, N.Y., Nashville, T.N.: Bombardier Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  While we could have gone to Vegas or New Orleans for our birthdays, Rob thought it would be special to spend the opening days of our Jesus years on a pilgrimage of sorts and go somewhere we never would have expected to go.
- 2023 April 20, Zak Jason, “My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum”, in Wired‎^[3], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-24:
  I could say it started when I turned 33—my Jesus year, the year I vowed to transcend anxiety and exhaustion and do my most important work, the year I would emerge from my cave of pandemic isolation and early parenthood and couples therapy as the second coming of myself.
- 2023 December 6, Sam Adams, “Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year, in Terrible News for Taylor Swift”, in Slate‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:
  Instead, at age 33, Swift has had a “Jesus year” that has found her ascending to almost godlike heights, showcasing her catalog at Springsteen-like lengths and still leaving fans with plenty of surprise-song FOMO.