Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary centenary

Pilgrimage to an eligible shrine, church or chapel, with a spiritual-union provision for those impeded.

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

When: 1 October 2025–4 November 2026
Where: Original Shrine, Schoenstatt, and shrines, churches or chapels under the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary; spiritual union for those impeded as specified
Who: All eligible faithful
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Unite your heart with the spiritual aims of the 2025 Jubilee, in penitence and love; make a pilgrimage to an eligible church, chapel or shrine.
There, participate in jubilee prayers or spend time in contemplation and prayer honoring God. Pray for peace and unity among peoples and the overcoming of contemporary errors.
Pray the Our Father, Creed, and an invocation to Mary as Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy; fulfil the usual conditions.
The elderly, sick, their carers and those unable to leave home for a grave reason may instead unite spiritually with the jubilee celebrations, offering prayers, suffering and life’s difficulties to God. Renounce every sin and intend to fulfil the usual conditions as soon as possible.
The institute’s initial pastoral summary additionally lists an act of penance and charity; the full published decree translation specifies the pilgrimage/prayer and impeded-person routes above.

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.

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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.

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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 October 2025
Stated end: 4 November 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.