Jubilee 2025
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Rector's Welcome
In calling the 2025 Holy Year, Pope Francis has extended all the graces of the Jubilee out from Rome to the cathedral churches and basilicas of the world. As both a Cathedral and a Basilica, Denver’s Cathedral Basilica proudly plays host this whole year to Jubilee pilgrims. In coming to the Cathedral Basilica as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, we seek to encounter the person of Jesus Christ, the power of his grace, and his pardon.
I invite you and yours on pilgrimage to the Cathedral Basilica this year: to behold the Jubilee Cross in the sanctuary, to participate in the sacred worship of the Mother Church of the Archdiocese, and to pray for the grace of the Jubilee Indulgence. In a venerable tradition dating back to the High Middle Ages, the Pope has once more issued the invitation to all Christ’s faithful, and so we at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception stand at the ready to welcome you on this journey of hope.
Fr. Michael Bodzioch
WHEN A PERSON IS BAPTIZED THEY ARE...
Made in new creation, an adopted son or daughter of God, who has become partaker of the divine nature. – CCC 1265
A member of the Body of Christ, the Church. – CCC 1267
Freed from the power of darkness and is brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God. – CCC 1250
Able to believe in God, to hope in him, an to love him through the theological virtues;
Given the power to love and act under the prompting of the Holy Spirit though the gifts of the Holy Spirit;
Helped to grow in the goodness through the moral virtues. – CCC 1266
DECEMBER 29, 2024 | 10:30am: Mass for the Opening of the Jubilee Year
JANUARY 5, 2025 | 10:30am: Mass for Children and Teenagers
JANUARY 19 | 10:30am: Mass for University Students
FEBRUARY 2 | 10:30am: Mass for Consecrated and Religious
FEBRUARY 16 | 10:30am: Mass for Health Care Workers
MARCH 9 | 10:30am: Mass for All Seeking God’s Pardon and Mercy
MARCH 23 | 10:30am: Mass for Expectant or Hopeful Parents
APRIL 6 | 10:30am: Mass for Catholics Recently Returning to the Practice of the Faith
MAY 10 | 10:00am: Ordination Mass for Priests and Seminarians
MAY 18 | 10:30am: Mass for Newly Baptized
JUNE 8 | 10:30am: Mass for Those Confirmed this Year
JUNE 14 | 9:00am: Ordination Mass for Deacons
JUNE 22 | 10:30am: Mass for Eucharistic Adorers
JULY 6 | 10:30am: Mass for Laborers and Professionals
JULY 20 | 10:30am: Mass for Senior Citizens
AUGUST 10 | 10:30am: Mass for Those Seeking Any Type of Healing
SEPTEMBER 14 | 10:30am: Mass for Educators
SEPTEMBER 28 | 10:30am: Mass for Artists and Musicians
OCTOBER 12 | 10:30am: Mass for Athletes and Sports
OCTOBER 26 | 10:30am: Mass for Engaged or Married Couples
NOVEMBER 2 | 10:30am: Mass for Our Beloved Dead
NOVEMBER 16 | 10:30am: Mass for Military Personnel and Veterans
DECEMBER 7 | 10:30am: Mass for Jubilee Year Pilgrims to Rome
DECEMBER 28 | 10:30am: Mass for the Closing of the Jubilee Year
An indulgence is the remission before God of the temporal punishment due sins already forgiven as far as their guilt is concerned, which the follower of Christ with the proper dispositions and under certain determined conditions acquires through the intervention of the Church
An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due sin.
To learn more about indulgences you can read paragraphs 1471-1479 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church or you can read Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution Indulgentiarum Doctrina.
Every 25 years, one particular form of indulgenced activity or prayer is to go on pilgrimage to Rome so to visit the great basilicas of the saintly apostles buried there alongside the relics of Christ’s life and passion housed in the Eternal City. However, the Church knows full well that not everyone can get to Rome, which is why, in a Holy Year, the Popes regularly extend the Jubilee Indulgence beyond Rome. Thus, this Holy Year, as long as the faithful have the intention to receive what the Church extends, all can receive a ‘plenary’ or ‘full’ indulgence for the complete wiping away of the temporal effects of sins by participating in any Mass, Holy Hour, Vespers, or rosary at the Cathedral Basilica by papal decree. The power to grant this spiritual favor belongs to the ‘Keys of St Peter’, entrusted to the Popes by Christ himself for the binding and loosening of sins.
To receive a plenary indulgence you must be in a state of sanctifying grace and fulfill the following requirements:
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Have the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin, even venial sin;
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Have sacramentally confessed your sins;
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Receive the Holy Eucharist;
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Pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff (the prayer for the Pope's intention is left to the choice of the faithful, but one 'Our Father' and 'Hail Mary' is suggested)
If the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin is in any way less than complete, or if the prescribed three conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence will be only partial.
While it is fitting for the Sacramental Confession, reception of Holy Communion, and prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff to take place on the day that the indulgenced act is completed it is not necessary. It is sufficient that these be carried out within about 20 days before or after the indulgenced act.
Information taken from The Gift of the Indulgence from the Apostolic Penitentiary and from Indulgentiarum Doctrina from Pope Paul VI.
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