Jubilee 2025 Pilgrimage Destination
“Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
- Romans 5:5
To our great joy, Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi has designated our monastery chapel as one of the archdiocesan pilgrimage sites for the Jubilee of 2025: Pilgrims of Hope. In the local diocesan churches, this Jubilee lasts from December 29, 2024 through December 28, 2025.
This Indulgence can be gained by making a pilgrimage to our monastery chapel, and there devoutly participating in one of the following:
Holy Mass (7:30 am every day except 7:00 am on Fridays)
The Divine Office (or Liturgy of the Hours), specifically the Office of Readings (5:55 am!) and Lauds (around 6:20 am) and Vespers (6:00 pm)
The Rosary (we pray the Community Rosary at around 11:35 am, after Sext at 11:25 am)
Or engaging in Eucharistic adoration and meditation for a suitable time, concluding with the Our Father, the Profession of Faith in any legitimate form, and invocations to Mary, the Mother of God.
Our monastery chapel is open daily from 6:00 am to 6:30 pm. View the full chapel schedule here.
The Usual Conditions for Gaining a Plenary Indulgence
“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 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” (From the Vatican decree, which also lists many others ways to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence).
You can gain the Jubilee Indulgence if you are a baptized Catholic, and:
Repent of your sins and are free from all attachment to sin
Go to sacramental confession within 20 days of the indulgenced work
Receive Holy Communion and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (praying one Our Father and one Hail Mary is usual), usually on the same day as the work
Perform the indulgenced work (visiting and praying in our chapel, or another specified act for the Jubilee Indulgence).
You can gain this indulgence for yourself, or on behalf of the souls in purgatory.
What is an Indulgence?
An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment due to sin . . .
To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence. Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life, the privation of which is called the "eternal punishment" of sin. On the other hand every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified either here on earth, or after death in the state called Purgatory. This purification frees one from what is called the "temporal punishment" of sin. These two punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin. A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1472)
. . . given by the Church based on the treasury of merits of Jesus, Mary, and the saints.
An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins. Thus the Church does not want simply to come to the aid of these Christians, but also to spur them to works of devotion, penance, and charity. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1479)
Indulgences, then, are meant to spur us on in love for God as much as possible in this life so that, purified from all stain of sin, we can reach Heaven with Him forever.
For a fuller understanding, read the full section on Indulgences in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.