Pope Francis announced a Jubilee Year of Hope for 2025. The celebration of the Jubilee began on Christmas Eve, 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door at the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome. It continues through January 6, 2026.

Saint Mary’s of the Barrens Church, home of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Perryville, is one of nine pilgrimage sites in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis for the Jubilee Year of Hope for 2025.

The faithful will be able to obtain the special grace of a “Jubilee Indulgence” (a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven) by fulfilling certain exercises in conjunction with making a pious pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal or another sacred Jubilee site.

Below are several links to more information about the Jubilee Year of Hope, indulgences, and the National Shrine’s calendar of Masses and other public events associated with this special year.

–Vatican website: www.iubilaeum2025.va/en.html

–USCCB site: www.usccb.org/committees/jubilee-2025

–Archdiocesan website: archstl.org/2025jubileeyear