San Antonio local-jubilee grant
San Antonio anniversary pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to one of the five churches designated for the local jubilee.
Time required Variable: a complete visit and either the prescribed rites or prayer.
- When
- 1 January 2024–31 December 2026
- Where
- Five named churches, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a pilgrimage to San Fernando Cathedral (San Antonio), Saint Mary (Fredericksburg), Sacred Heart (Uvalde), Saint James (Gonzales), or Immaculate Conception (Panna Maria).
- There, participate in jubilee rites or spend suitable time in pious meditation. For the meditation alternative, conclude with the Our Father, Creed and Marian invocations.
- The archdiocese’s practical guide additionally directs works of mercy and an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the Pope’s intentions. These details are additional local guidance, not wording in the published decree.
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/visit with jubilee rites
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete prescribed visit and participation in the selected rites are required; the service schedule determines the duration.
Pilgrimage/visit with prayer
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Complete the prescribed visit, prayer or meditation and concluding prayers. No numeric duration is supplied by the source; do not treat recitation of the concluding prayers alone as the whole work.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration
- Stated start
- 1 January 2024
- Stated end
- 31 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
- Archdiocese of San Antonio: bilingual decree translationProt.00389/2024-1221/23/I, pages 1–2: pilgrimage, prayers, dates and impeded provision
- Archdiocese of San Antonio, anniversary grantCurrent local-jubilee instructions, five churches, January 2024–December 2026
- Apostolic Penitentiary: Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: Our Father and Creed for an indulgenced church or oratory visit unless otherwise prescribed
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.