Jubilee 2025 in Lourdes
All roads lead to Hope...
Pilgrims from all over the world will be converging on Rome to pass through the Holy Door, but it will also be possible to experience the grace of the Jubilee at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Jubilee Year will be officially opened in Lourdes during the Mass at the Grotto on 31stDecember at 11pm.
Lourdes, a Jubilee venue
On 21st November 2024, Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes issued a decreedesignating the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes as the place where the faithful may receive the grace of a plenary indulgence during the Jubilee Year.
Our mission and our evangelical message depend less on our actions, necessary though they may be, than on our visible communion, our respect for one another, and the deep affection we feel for one another.
For those unable to travel to Rome, the Sanctuary of Lourdes is inviting them to make a pilgrimage under the watchful eyes of Mary, Mother of Hope and Mother of the Church. This will be an opportune time to pray for the Church, for the world, for peace, and for all visitors and pilgrims to the Sanctuary, so that everyone may be united in hope, faith and charity.
Receiving a plenary indulgence in Lourdes
Le Vatican a annoncé que des l’indulgence plénière sera accordée dans le cadre de l’année jubilaire 2025. En accordant une indulgence plénière, l’Église catholique exprime son désir que les fidèles puissent faire l’expérience de la miséricorde de Dieu. En effet, accorder l’indulgence plénière c’est déclarer la rémission ou le pardon des péchés.
The conditions for receiving the grace of a plenary indulgence:
To obtain a plenary indulgence, the following conditions must be met: carry out the works attached to the indulgence (going to the cathedral or the Sanctuary of Lourdes), and no more than seven days later, receive forgiveness through sacramental confession, receive Eucharistic Communion, pray for the Pope’s intentions.
Works to be performed to receive the grace of the Plenary Indulgence:
The faithful may receive the indulgence by performing one of the following works.
Participating in the Stations of the Cross, praying the Rosary, participating in a Marian Procession at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, completing the Sanctuary’s Jubilee Way.
Since divine mercy will be offered on a large scale during the Jubilee Year, the ‘chapelains’ will bemaking themselves generously available to celebrate the sacrament of Penance.
All the pathways of Lourdes lead to Hope:
– Carry the flame of hope in procession with our sick brothers and sisters.
– Sing the song of hope in every language.
– Pray to Mary, the Way of Hope.
God is always ready to forgive, and he never tires of forgiving in ways that are continually new and surprising. … In the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives our sins, which he truly blots out; and yet sin leaves a negative effect on the way we think and act. But the mercy of God is stronger even than this. It becomes indulgence on the part of the Father who, through the Bride of Christ, his Church, reaches the pardoned sinner and frees him from every residue left by the consequences of sin, enabling him to act with charity, to grow in love rather than to fall back into sin.
