Kingston archdiocese: bicentenary pilgrimage

Pilgrimage to one of five designated churches during the bicentenary jubilee.

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Time required Variable: pilgrimage and rites or prayer; an impeded-person alternative is provided.

When: 8 December 2025–8 December 2026, as specified in the original rescript
Where: St Michael the Archangel, Belleville; St Joseph and St Mary’s Cathedral, Kingston; St Francis Xavier, Brockville; St John the Baptist, Perth — Ontario, Canada
Who: All eligible faithful
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a pilgrimage to one of the five designated churches; there, attend jubilee rites or spend suitable time in meditation, prayer or Christian devotion.
For the prayer alternative, intercede against current errors and for peace, Canada’s fidelity to its Christian vocation, priestly and religious vocations, and the family; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and invocations to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy.
The archbishop also directs the 200th Anniversary Prayer, confession within 21 days and two prayers for the Pope’s intentions.
Those impeded by old age or serious illness may unite spiritually, offering prayers and suffering; renounce sin and intend the usual conditions as soon as possible.
The original rescript specifies the jubilee ending 8 December 2026. The pastoral summary says “throughout 2026”; confirm any later extension with the archdiocese.

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 with jubilee rites

Complete the prescribed event

Length of the prescribed celebration.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Participation in the prescribed celebration is required; allow for its actual schedule and any pilgrimage, visit or prayers specified for this route.

Timing sources

Pilgrimage and prayer

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete pilgrimage/visit and the prescribed prayer or meditation are required. “Suitable time” is qualitative; no minute figure is supplied. Listed concluding prayers do not replace the preceding devotion.

Timing sources

Spiritual union when legitimately impeded

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Unite spiritually and perform the prescribed prayers or offering in the manner stated in this grant. No duration for suffering is imposed.

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.