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From Bishop Hying
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Click the image to read Bishop Hying's pastoral letter on the 2025 Jubilee!
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A Moment with The Bishop: Welcome to Jubilee 2025
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Jubilee Opening Mass: Sunday, December 29, 2024
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Opening Mass & Rite for the Jubilee
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Photos from the Opening of the Jubilee Year
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An essential part of a Jubilee celebration is a pilgrimage. For the 2025 Jubilee, the Holy Father has asked all bishops around the world to designate their cathedral and other sites in their dioceses as pilgrimage destinations, where the faithful may gain the Jubilee indulgence and unite themselves spiritually with the Holy Father and those making a pilgrimage to Rome, the typical Jubilee pilgrimage destination.
A pilgrimage is an outward expression of an eternal reality. When we move ourselves from one place to another, we remind ourselves that we are on a journey to Heaven, and that our lives here on Earth are a journey of continual conversion toward God and His Will. The difficulties that we may face in our pilgrimage travels (bad weather, fatigue, lack of sleep, for example) remind us of the difficulties that we encounter on our way to eternal life. Ultimately, though, these difficulties can be for our good and for the good of others, if we offer them to God in a spirit of acceptance and patience.
Information about our six Jubilee pilgrimage sites can be found below!
All six of these sites will be open every Saturday of the Jubilee to pilgrims, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, with exceptions for events such as funerals. See the drop-downs for links to each site's website, where you can check for Mass, Confession, and Adoration times.
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Learn more about this site (hours, contact information, Mass and Confession schedule) by visiting their website.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapular
5101 Schofield St.
Monona, WI 53716
(to learn more about the Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapular, click here)
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Learn more about this site (hours, contact information, Mass and Confession schedule) by visiting their website.
St. Cecilia Church
603 Oak St.
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
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Learn more about this site (hours, contact information, Mass and Confession schedule) by visiting their website.
St. Bernard Church
114 S. Water St.
Watertown, WI 53094
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Learn more about this site (hours, contact information, Mass and Confession schedule) by visiting their website.
Nativity of Mary Church
313 E. Wall St.
Janesville, WI 53545
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Learn more about this site (hours, contact information, Mass and Confession schedule) by visiting their website.
St. Mary Church
930 Jefferson St.
Fennimore, WI 53809
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Learn more about this site's hours by visiting their Google listing and clicking on the clock icon.
Schoenstatt Shrine
5901 Cottage Grove Rd.
Madison, WI 53718
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The Jubilee Passport
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You can pick up a Jubilee Passport at any of our six pilgrimage sites; we encourage you to visit all the sites and to collect a passport stamp at each one! Pilgrims who visit all six sites can receive a Jubilee certificate signed by Bishop Hying! To get your certificate, send a photo of your passport with all six stamps plus your name and address to:
Jubilee - Diocese of Madison
702 S. High Point Rd. Ste. 225
Madison, WI 53719
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- What is an indulgence?
- The usual conditions to obtain a plenary indulgence
- How to obtain the Jubilee indulgence
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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 actions of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints” (CCC 1471).
For a full explanation of this definition, please visit madisondiocese.org/indulgences
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In addition to performing the prescribed work (in this case, works related to the 2025 Jubilee), the following conditions must be met in order to obtain a plenary indulgence:
1) Detachment from all sin, including venial sin (if detachment is imperfect, a partial indulgence is granted)
2) Receiving Holy Communion (ideally the day that you do the indulgenced work, but 20 days before or after is sufficient)
3) Going to Confession (again, ideally the day you do the work, but within 20 days is sufficient)
4) Praying for the intentions of the Pope (typically with an Our Father and a Hail Mary)
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While there are opportunities for gaining the Jubilee indulgence all over the world, the Diocese of Madison offers the following local options for the prescribed work:
1) PILGRIMAGE: Make a pilgrimage to any of our six diocesan Jubilee sites and, while there, take part in one of the following: Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours (Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, or Evening Prayer), the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, or a communal penance service with individual Confession.
2) PIOUS VISIT: Make a pious visit to any of our six diocesan Jubilee sites and, while there, engage in Eucharistic Adoration or prayerful meditation for a suitable length of time, finishing with an Our Father, the Creed, and any prayer to Mary.
3) SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE: If you are unable to travel to a Jubilee site for serious reasons (illness, age, imprisonment, being cloistered, being a caregiver, etc.), you can obtain the indulgence by making a “spiritual pilgrimage,” uniting your prayers and intentions to those taking part in pilgrimages and reciting an Our Father and a Creed.
4) WORKS OF MERCY OR PENANCE: Take part in any of the following works of mercy or penance: participating in a mission, spiritual exercise, or similar formation activity related to the documents of Vatican II or the Catechism; carrying out an act of charity on behalf of the souls in Purgatory; visiting the sick, imprisoned, elderly, or disabled; fasting from futile distractions or unnecessary consumption one day a week; giving to the poor; engaging in charitable and justice initiatives.
The Jubilee indulgence can be granted between December 29, 2024 and January 6, 2026. An indulgence can be applied to yourself or to someone who has died, but it cannot be applied to another living person.Learn more about the Jubilee plenary indulgence HERE.
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International and Local Jubilee News
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January 6Whether you travel to Rome or participate locally during the special celebration, God’s grace still flows to the faithful through his Church.Read More
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January 6Jubilee, Holy Door, indulgence, bull of indiction, major basilica … Here’s a glossary of some of the key terms for the Great Jubilee of 2025.Read More
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January 6The Vatican has detailed how to obtain plenary indulgences — removing temporal punishment for sin through Christ’s merits — during the 2025 Jubilee Year.Read More
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The practice of a Jubilee year has ancient roots in the Jewish tradition and evidence for it can be found in the Old Testament. The Jubilee was called every 50 years and was a time for forgiveness and a reminder of God's providence and mercy.
The dedication of a year for this emphasis provided the community with a time to come back into right relationship with one another and with God. As the practice of the Jubilee year was adopted into the Church, these themes of mercy, forgiveness, and solidarity continued. Jubilee years celebrated in the Catholic Church focus on specific themes aimed to draw people closer to the Lord and bring about a renewal of faith and forgiveness in the world.
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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 moments of greatest need.
There are the rough waves under the figures, symbolising the fact that life’s pilgrimage does not always go smoothly in calm waters. Often the circumstances of daily life and events in the wider world require a greater call to hope. That’s why we should pay special attention to 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.
It is worth noting that the image illustrates the pilgrim’s journey not as an individual undertaking but rather as something communal, marked by an increasing dynamism leading one ever closer to the cross. 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.
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The Vatican established different prayer intentions and international celebrations throughout the Jubilee Year. Click HERE to see the calendar from the USCCB and the Vatican.
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The Jubilee Prayer
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Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your Son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel. May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth, when, with the powers of evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven. May that same grace spread with joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth. To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise forever. Amen.
Download our Jubilee prayer card HERE
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Jubilee Prayer to the Immaculate Mother of Hope
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Immaculate Mother of Hope, we turn to you during this Jubilee Year. Fill our hearts with a renewed and revolutionary hope as we journey as pilgrims on this earth, fixing our eyes towards heaven. Accompany us now and always, as we entrust to you our cares and concerns, our sorrows and hopes, knowing that you will present them to your Divine Son on our behalf. We implore your tender help and protection, confident that everyone, especially the suffering and those most in need, will come to know your closeness, as the most affectionate of mothers, who never abandons her children and who, for the holy people of God, is “a sign of certain hope and comfort.” Amen.
- Composed by Michael Wick
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Jubilee Litany of Hope
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Please see the PDF below for a Jubilee Litany of Hope, composed by Michael Wick.
If you would like copies of a brochure of the prayer, contact the Institute on Religious Life ([email protected]).
Plain text PDF
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