Macau diocese: 450th anniversary

Pilgrimage to the designated seminary church during the diocesan jubilee.

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

When: 2026-01-01–2027-01-23 (ending date announced by the bishop)
Where: Church of Saint Joseph’s Seminary, Macau
Who: All eligible faithful
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a pilgrimage to Saint Joseph’s Seminary church; there, participate in jubilee rites or spend suitable time in prayer, meditation or Christian devotion.
For the prayer alternative, intercede for peace, fidelity to Christian vocation, priestly and religious vocations, protection of the family, and against current errors; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and invocations to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy. Fulfil the usual conditions.
The bishop’s local pastoral directions also ask prayer for the propagation of the Faith and for the Pope’s intentions, and describe the church visit as concluding with the Our Father, Creed and a Marian invocation (for example, the Hail Mary). These directions accompany the rescript’s rites-or-prayer alternatives above.
Those prevented by old age or serious illness may unite spiritually with the celebrations and offer their prayers and suffering, rejecting sin and intending the usual conditions as soon as possible.
The bishop’s pastoral letter announces 23 January 2027 as the end; the petition reproduced with the rescript refers to calendar 2026. Confirm local arrangements near the end of the jubilee.

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: 1 January 2026
Stated end: 23 January 2027

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.