The Latin phrases “Iubilaeum A.D. MMXXV,” (Jubilee 2025) and “Peregrinantes in spem,” (Pilgrims of Hope)
Jubilee Year 2025, themed “Pilgrims of Hope,” began Dec. 24, 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, and will conclude Jan. 6, 2026. This year of grace offers the Catholic faithful an opportunity for spiritual renewal, emphasizing themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and the universal call to holiness.
The Jubilee Year is underway. It is a time of pilgrimage and grace, and although much of the spotlight and attention will be on the Eternal City, the faithful will have many opportunities to embark on their own unique spiritual journeys.
One of the greatest opportunities available to all the faithful during a Jubilee is the possibility of obtaining a plenary indulgence, a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin. Such an indulgence, which applies to sins already forgiven, cleanses the soul as if the person had just been baptized. Plenary indulgences obtained during the Jubilee Year can also be applied to souls in purgatory with the possibility of obtaining two plenary indulgences for the deceased in one day, according to the Apostolic Penitentiary.Plenary Indulgences will be granted to all who make a pilgrimage to any of these 6 churches within the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.
1. St. Ann Cathedral, Great Falls, Montana
2. St. Patrick Co-Cathedral, Billings, Montana
3. St. Xavier, St. Xavier, Montana
4. Immaculate Conception, Wolf Point, Montana
5. St. Mary, Rocky Boy, Montana
6. Sacred Heart, Miles City, Montana