Jubilee 2025
2025 is a Jubilee Year for the Catholic Church. This year's theme is Pilgrims of Hope, and you can find more information at https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en.html.
- Click here to download the Jubilee Prayer in multiple languages
- Click here to download the Jubilee Hymn in multiple languages
Locally in our diocese, we wll celebrate the following special liturgies:
Opening Liturgy:
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
10:30am Mass at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus
Special Jubilee Masses at the Cathedral:
- February 22: Mass for Deacons, 11am
- June 1: Mass for Persons with Disabilities, 2pm
- October 4: Mass for Grandparents and Elderly, 11am
- October 19: Mass for Catechists, 2pm
Young Adults are invited to consider joining a pilgrimage to Rome July 24 - August 4, 2025
More details under "Pilgrimages" at https://catechesis.diojoliet.org/young-adult-ministry.
You may also visit specially designated parishes during the year for a plenary indulgence. More details on ways to obtain a plenary indulgence below. For more information, contact [email protected].
On May 13, 2024, the Apostolic Penitentiary issued a decree on the plenary indulgence which may be obtained during the upcoming Jubilee Year by making a pilgrimage, piously visiting a sacred place, or performing a work of mercy and penance. This indulgence is subject to the usual conditions—sacramental confession, reception of Holy Communion, prayer for the intentions of the Pope, and total detachment to all sin, including venial sin.
(from the Decree of the Granting of the Indulgence during the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025)
“All the faithful, who are truly repentant and free from any affection for sin, 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 Supreme Pontiff, will be able to obtain from the treasury of the Church a plenary indulgence, with remission and forgiveness of all their sins, which can be applied in suffrage to the souls in Purgatory in the following ways:
Pilgrimages to any sacred Jubilee sites…in Rome, in the Holy Land, in other ecclesiastical areas
Pious visits to sacred places…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….
The faithful who are truly repentant of sin but who cannot participate in the various solemn celebrations, pilgrimages and pious visits for serious reasons (sick, prisoners, workers in hospitals and other care facilities) can obtain the Jubilee Indulgence, under the same conditions if, united in spirit with the faithful taking part in person, they recite the Our Father, the Profession of Faith in any approved form, and other prayers in conformity with the objectives of the Holy Year, in their homes or wherever confined offering up their sufferings or the hardships of their lives.
Works of mercy and penance, the faithful will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence, if, with a devout spirit, they participate in popular missions, spiritual exercises, or formation activities on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, held in a church or other suitable place.
The faithful who have carried out an act of charity on behalf of the souls in Purgatory, if they receive Holy Communion a second time that day, can obtain the plenary indulgence twice on the day, applicable only to the deceased.
….during the Holy Year, we are called to be tangible signs of hope for those of our brothers and sisters who experience hardships of any kind. Therefore, the Indulgence is also linked to certain works of mercy and penance…the faithful are encouraged to carry out works of charity and mercy more frequently, …the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. In this way, the faithful will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence if they visit, for an appropriate amount of time, their brothers and sisters who are in need or in difficulty, in a sense making a pilgrimage to Christ present in them according to the usual spiritual, sacramental and prayer conditions.
The Jubilee Plenary Indulgence can also be obtained through initiatives that put into practice, in a concrete and generous way, the spirit of penance which is, in a sense, the soul of the Jubilee. Examples—rediscovering the penitential nature of Friday, donating to the poor, supporting works of a religious or social nature, supporting the quality of life for all people, and dedicating time to voluntary activities that are of service to the community or to other similar forms of personal commitment.
