Hong Kong: pilgrimage for the diocesan 80th anniversary

Make a pilgrimage to one of the nine designated Hong Kong churches during the diocesan anniversary year.

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Time required Variable: pilgrimage and church-visit prayers, with Communion at Mass.

When: Any day during 8 December 2025–8 December 2026
Where: Hong Kong: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception; Saint Anne, Stanley; Saint Andrew, Tseung Kwan O; Saint Francis of Assisi, Sham Shui Po; Saint Joseph, Fanling; Saint Joseph Chapel, Yim Tin Tsai; Saint Thomas the Apostle, Tsing Yi; Our Lady of Fatima, Cheung Chau; Our Lady of Joy Abbey, Lantau
Who: Eligible faithful undertaking the prescribed pilgrimage
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a devout pilgrimage to one of the nine churches named in the Chancery notice. The concession is expressly attributed to the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Pray the Our Father and Creed during the church visit, as required by Norm 19.
Fulfil the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from sin. The Chancery specifically directs confession within three weeks before or after the work, Communion during Mass, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions (an Our Father and Hail Mary may fulfil that prayer).

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.

Pilgrimage and prayers with Communion at Mass

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

Complete the pilgrimage and church-visit prayers; no fixed duration is prescribed. The Chancery additionally directs Communion during Mass, whose schedule varies. The Mass is an accompanying condition, not an alternative to the pilgrimage.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work; required procession or pilgrimage activity remains included
Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration

Stated start: 8 December 2025
Stated end: 8 December 2026

Prayer texts and resources

Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.

Source and exact reference

Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.