Welcome to the Jubilee 2025 homepage for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis! On this page you’ll find resources and information to help you celebrate this special year.
Please visit this page often as information and resources will be added throughout this special time for the Church throughout our world. May this Jubilee observance make hope more present in your life—by God’s love, grace and mercy!
On this page you’ll find:
Answers to key questions, including the Jubilee indulgence
Details about Jubilee events
Resources from the Holy See (i.e. the Vatican), the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and more!
Jubilee Prayer
Please visit this page often as information and resources will be added throughout this special time for the Church throughout our world. May this Jubilee observance make hope more present in your life—by God’s love, grace and mercy!
Jubilee Questions
What is a Jubilee Year?
In recent centuries, every 25 years a Jubilee Year is proclaimed for the Church throughout our world. Jubilee years are special times for a more intense focus on conversion from sin to new life in Jesus Christ, for enhanced priority of encountering Jesus in the sacraments, for reflection on a Jubilee theme—2025’s being Pilgrims of Hope.
I’ve heard about a Jubilee indulgence; what’s that?
“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.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1471)
Information on obtaining the Jubilee indulgence can be found by clicking here
Below please see specific Holy Places:
—SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis.
—The Shrine of St. Mother Theodore Guérin and the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary of the Woods.
—Saint Meinrad Archabbey Church, 200 Hill Dr., St. Meinrad.
Jubilee Events
To mark the launch of the Jubilee Year, a prayer service will take place in Indianapolis on Dec. 29 at 10 a.m. at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., followed by a procession ending with Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St. (Learn more here)
A 10 a.m. Mass on Sunday, December 28th, 2025 at the cathedral will bring our Jubilee year to a close.
Meanwhile, a variety of talks, retreats and similar events will touch on the theme Pilgrims of Hope throughout our archdiocese. Visit this page often for an updated list of Jubilee events.
Jubilee Resources
Vatican Jubilee site: Jubilee 2025 (iubilaeum2025.va)
USCCB Jubilee page: https://www.usccb.org/committees/jubilee-2025
Download the Jubilee app APP (iubilaeum2025.va) and follow the Jubilee on social media: #iubilaeum2025
Video: Jubilee 2025, Pilgrims of Hope: A Conversation with Archbishop Charles Thompson
Hope-themed artwork
Jubilee Prayer
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
the joy and peace of our Redeemer
throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed,
be glory and praise for ever.
Amen
May the Jubilee Year 2025 be a time of growth, for you, in the virtue of hope. May the information, resources and event details on this page enrich your observance of this special time for the Church throughout our world. And may Jesus, our only hope of salvation, help you grow in all virtue as His friend and joyful, missionary disciple!