🌍Jubilee Year 2025 – “Jubilee of Hope”

Called by His Holiness Pope Francis to help all Christians rediscover God’s love, mercy, and hope through pilgrimage, prayer, confession, and works of mercy.

🌍 Overall Purpose

Pope Francis has declared 2025 as a “Jubilee of Hope.” The Holy Year invites us to experience the mercy and love of God in a deeper way. During this year, the Church offers a Plenary Indulgence — a full remission of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven in confession. This grace brings spiritual healing and may also be offered for the souls in Purgatory.

💧 What Is Required to Gain the Jubilee Indulgence

To receive the plenary indulgence, the faithful must:

  • Go to Confession – be truly repentant and free from attachment to sin.
  • Receive Holy Communion.
  • Pray for the intentions of the Pope (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be).
  • Perform one of the approved Jubilee acts listed below.

You may gain one plenary indulgence per day and offer it either for yourself or for a soul in purgatory.

🕊️ The Jubilee Acts
1. Pilgrimage

Make a pilgrimage to a designated Jubilee site such as:

  • In Rome: St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, or St. Paul Outside the Walls.
  • In the Holy Land: the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Nativity (Bethlehem), or Annunciation (Nazareth).
  • In your Diocese: your Cathedral or another church designated by your bishop.

While there, take part in Mass, Adoration, the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, or other approved prayer.

2. Pious Visit and Prayer

Visit any designated sacred place and spend time in:

  • Eucharistic Adoration or quiet meditation,
  • Followed by the Our Father, Profession of Faith, and a Marian prayer (like the Hail Mary).
3. Works of Mercy or Penance

Live the Jubilee spirit through action:

  • Corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry, visit the sick, clothe the poor, etc.
  • Spiritual works of mercy: pray for the living and the dead, forgive, comfort, instruct, etc.
  • Personal sacrifice: fasting, giving up social media, donating to the poor, etc.

Each of these, done with love and the right disposition, can gain a plenary indulgence.

4. For Those Who Cannot Travel

Those who are sick, elderly, imprisoned, or homebound can still receive the indulgence by:

  • Praying the Our Father, Profession of Faith, and a Marian prayer,
  • Uniting spiritually with pilgrims around the world,
  • Offering up their sufferings or hardships to God.