Three churches in our diocese have been designated Jubilee 2025 Churches:
Conditions for Obtaining the Jubilee Indulgence during the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025
During the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025, all the faithful, who are truly repentant and free from any affection for sin (cf. Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, IV ed., norm. 20, § 1), who are moved by a spirit of charity and who, during the Holy Year, purified through the sacrament of penance and refreshed by Holy Communion, pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (this prayer for the Pope’s intentions is left to the choice of the individual, but an “Our Father” and a “Hail Mary” are suggested), will be able to obtain from the treasury of the church a plenary indulgence, with remission and forgiveness of all their sins, if they also undertake a pious pilgrimage or a pious visit to any sacred jubilee site. This Jubilee Plenary Indulgence can be also applied in suffrage to the souls in Purgatory.
Conditions for a Jubilee Pilgrimage
The faithful, pilgrims of hope, will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence granted by the Holy Father if they undertake a pious pilgrimage to any sacred Jubilee site by devoutly participating in Holy Mass (where the liturgical norms allow for it, the Mass of the Jubilee might fruitfully be chosen, or one of the Votive Masses: for Reconciliation, for the Remission of Sins, for the Promotion of Charity or to Foster Harmony); a ritual Mass for the conferral of the sacraments of Christian Initiation or the Anointing of the Sick; or any of the following: a celebration of the Word of God; the Liturgy of the Hours (office of readings, lauds, vespers); the Via Crucis; the Marian Rosary; the recitation of the Akathist hymn; a penitential celebration, which ends with the individual confessions of the penitents, as established in the Rite of Penance (form II).
Conditions for a Jubilee Pious Visit
Likewise, the faithful can obtain the Jubilee Indulgence if, individually or in a group, they devoutly visit any Jubilee site and there, for a suitable period of time, engage in Eucharistic adoration and meditation, concluding with the Our Father, the Profession of Faith in any legitimate form, and invocations to Mary, the Mother of God, so that in this Holy Year everyone “will come to know the closeness of Mary, the most affectionate of mothers, who never abandons her children” (Spes non Confundit, 24).
