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, inasmuch as it is the proper church of the Archbishop of Denver, and a Basilica, insofar as it was granted the papal honors by Pope St John Paul II in 1979, 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 the pardon of his extravagant mercies.
As Rector of the Cathedral Basilica, 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.
Very Reverend Samuel Morehead, VF
Rector
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
Whenever one of Christ’s faithful goes to confession, the guilt of his or her sins is removed, being forgiven or absolved by divine grace. However, there remain still the lingering consequences, effects, or attachments to sin, of which each needs to be purified. The Church calls these the ‘temporal effects’ of sin. Souls will either be healed or purified of these effects in this life or in purgatory, as we must yet be perfected so, by God’s grace, to enter the glorious perfection that is heaven. God desires to give all persons the graces to be healed and purified in this life so that we can pass into heaven all the quicker whenever He calls us to Himself. The Church has faithfully maintained the practice of promoting certain prayers, activities, devotions, pilgrimages, etc., which are deemed to help in this process of efficacious purification—such are called ‘indulgenced’ prayers or acts or, rather simply, ‘indulgences’.
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 on our part, one has to fulfill these simple requirements:
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Perform the specified work (go to Cathedral for the specified activities);
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Pray for a detachment from all sins;
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Receive Holy Communion the same day;
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Be in a state of sanctifying grace, having been to recent confession (within three weeks); and
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Pray for the prayer intentions of the Pope (usually just by offering up one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be).
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