Carmelite centenary jubilee at Cerro de los Ángeles (2026)
Spain: Cerro de los Ángeles Carmelite centenary
Make a devout visit to the Discalced Carmelite nuns’ chapel at Cerro de los Ángeles during the 2026 jubilee.
Time required Variable; no fixed number of minutes is stated for the chapel visit.
- When
- 1 January–31 December 2026
- Where
- Chapel of the Discalced Carmelite monastery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of the Angels, Cerro de los Ángeles, Diocese of Getafe, Spain
- Who
- Eligible faithful who make the prescribed chapel visit
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit the chapel of the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Cerro de los Ángeles during the jubilee year. The shrine’s February newsletter explicitly announces a plenary indulgence for this visit every day.
- Recite the Our Father and the Creed during the devout visit, following the general church-oratory visit rule in Norm 19 unless the particular concession provides otherwise.
- Fulfil the usual plenary conditions, including sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions and complete detachment from sin. The ordinary limit is one plenary indulgence per day, apart from the point-of-death exception.
The work and its conditions
A plenary indulgence also requires complete detachment from every sin, sacramental confession, Holy Communion, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, subject to the grant’s stated exceptions. The ordinary limit is one plenary indulgence per day.
Conditions common to every indulgence
The person gaining an indulgence must be baptized, not excommunicated, and in the state of grace at least when the prescribed works are completed. There must be at least a general intention to gain indulgences, and the prescribed work must be performed at the time and in the manner required by the grant.
Read the full conditions and norms. The cited grant and its specific provisions govern.
Time required
Read each branch with its own conditions. An editorial estimate is not a prescribed minimum.
Devout visit to the Carmelite chapel
Duration varies
Duration of the devout chapel visit and its prayers
The episcopal vicar’s published directions prescribe a chapel visit with the ordinary requirements but give no numerical minimum. Include the visit and the Our Father and Creed under the general church-oratory rule. No particular Mass, organized itinerary or timed stay is prescribed in the retrieved directions.
Timing sources
- Cerro de los Ángeles: Hablaré al Corazón, February 2026, no. 64Page 1, “Jubileo en las Carmelitas del Cerro,” signed P. Manuel Vargas, episcopal vicar: daily indulgence for visiting the nuns’ chapel throughout 2026, with ordinary requirements
- Cerro de los Ángeles shrine: Carmelite jubilee opening25 January 2026: papal jubilee from 1 January through 31 December 2026
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: Our Father and Creed for a plenary church or oratory visit, unless the concession provides otherwise; Norms 18 and 20: ordinary plenary limits and conditions
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the chapel and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Sacramental confession, Holy Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions when separate from the prescribed work
- Stated start
- 1 January 2026
- Stated end
- 31 December 2026
Occasion and source notes
The daily chapel-visit route is expressly published in the shrine’s February 2026 newsletter by the episcopal vicar; the original apostolic decree has not been retrieved. The Our Father and Creed are identified here as the general rule in Norm 19, not as a quotation of that newsletter. No special impeded-person alternative is established by these sources.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Cerro de los Ángeles: Hablaré al Corazón, February 2026, no. 64Page 1, “Jubileo en las Carmelitas del Cerro,” signed P. Manuel Vargas, episcopal vicar: daily indulgence for visiting the nuns’ chapel throughout 2026, with ordinary requirements
- Cerro de los Ángeles shrine: Carmelite jubilee opening25 January 2026: papal jubilee from 1 January through 31 December 2026
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: Our Father and Creed for a plenary church or oratory visit, unless the concession provides otherwise; Norms 18 and 20: ordinary plenary limits and conditions
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.