Jubilee Year-2025
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A Year of Hope“Hope is … the central message of the coming Jubilee that, in accordance with an ancient tradition, the Pope proclaims every twenty-five years.... For everyone, may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the “door” (cf. Jn 10:7.9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere and to all as ‘our hope’
(1 Tim 1:1)” [Spes non confundit, 1].
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Timeline
The Jubilee year will be from December 24th, 2024- December 28, 2025
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What is a Jubilee Year?
The Jubilee Year is a special time of spiritual renewal and greater union with God, achieved through prayer, forgiveness, indulgences, and sacramental grace.
"During the Holy Year, may the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman as a message of God’s love addressed to all! And may the Church bear faithful witness to this message in every part of the world! "
[Spes non confundit, 6].
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Jubilee Logo
- The logo shows four stylized figures, representing all of humanity, coming from the four corners of the earth. They embrace each other to indicate the solidarity and fraternity which should unite all peoples.
- The figure at the front is holding onto the cross. It is not only the sign of the faith which this lead figure embraces, but also of hope, which can never be abandoned, because we are always in need of hope, especially in our moments of greatest need.
- There are the rough waves under the figures, symbolizing the fact that life’s pilgrimage does not always go smoothly in calm waters.
- The lower part of the cross which has been elongated and turned into the shape of an anchor which is let down into the waves.
- The anchor is well known as a symbol of hope
- The cross in the logo is by no means static, but it is also dynamic. It bends down towards humanity, not leaving human beings alone, but stretching out to them to offer the certainty of its presence and the security of hope.
2025 Jubilee Year: Peregrinantes in Spem (Pilgrims in hope)
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Plenary Indulgences
An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. A faithful Christian properly disposed may gain under certain conditions through the action of the Church a partial or plenary indulgence. Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead (c.f. CCC, 1471).
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How do you gain an indulgence?
- Pilgrimages
- Devout visits to the Jubilee Sites
- Works of mercy and penance.
In case of illness or physical impediment, one may obtain the indulgence, properly disposed, reciting an Our Father, the Profession of Faith and other prayers mentioned above while offering up their sufferings.
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Diocese of Fresno Pilgrimage Site
- St. John's Cathedral, Fresno
- Shrine of St. Therese, Fresno
- Shrine of St. Jude, Livingston
- St. Charles Borromeo Church, Visalia (Open only on Sunday from 7:30am-3:30pm)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Bakersfield (Brundage Location)
- St. Ann Church, (Ridgecrest)
- St. John's Cathedral, Fresno
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