Pope Francis has declared 2025 the Jubilee Year of Hope. A Jubilee Year is a special time in the Church’s tradition encouraging holiness and deeper faith. The Church celebrates an Ordinary Jubilee every twenty-five years, with the last celebration having taken place in 2000. Jubilee Year 2025 will be marked by special opportunities for grace through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, local pilgrimages and the Jubilee Indulgence. As a Cathedral, Saint Agnes is a place of pilgrimage during the Jubilee Year of Hope. The faithful may make a pious pilgrimage to Saint Agnes Cathedral in order to obtain a plenary indulgence.
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Catholics can gain a plenary indulgence with the remission and forgiveness of all their sins, which can be applied in suffrage to the souls in Purgatory, by making a pious pilgrimage to Saint Agnes Cathedral. It is appropriate to make a pilgrimage specifically to the Jubilee Cross enshrined in the sanctuary of the Cathedral.
According to the Code of Canon Law (992) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (14471, an indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints”.
In order to obtain the plenary indulgence listed above, the following conditions must be fulfilled:
1. Detachment from all sin, even venial.
2. Sacramental confession
3. Reception of Holy Communion
4. Prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father, Pope Francis
A plenary indulgence can only be received once a day.
A single sacramental confession is sufficient for several plenary indulgences, but frequent sacramental confession is encouraged in order to obtain the grace of deeper conversion and purity of heart. For each plenary indulgence that is sought, a separate holy Communion and a separate prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father are required.
The prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father is left up to the choice of the individual, but an Our Father and Hail Mary are suggested.
It is appropriate, but not necessary, that the sacramental Confession and especially Holy Communion and the prayer for the Pope’s intentions take place on the same day that the indulgenced work is performed; but it is sufficient that these sacred rites and prayers be carried out within several days (about 20) before or after the indulgenced act.
Indulgences can always be applied either to oneself or to the souls of the deceased, but they cannot be applied to other persons living on earth.
Confession is offered each day at the Cathedral at the following times:
Saturday, Sunday, Eve of Holy Day, and Eve of First Friday
4:00 pm to 4:45 pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
Following the 6:30 am Mass
Wednesday
Before the 6:30 am, 7:45 am, and 12:10 pm Masses