We are excited to celebrate 2025 as a Jubilee Year in the Catholic Church with the theme Pilgrims of Hope! This Year of Jubilee offers additional opportunities for spiritual growth and sharing of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Several of these opportunities include an offering of plenary indulgences. Archbishop Naumann invites you to prayerfully consider how you (and your family) may engage in these opportunities through 2025 to celebrate the Year of Jubilee.
The Catholic Church celebrates a Jubilee Year every 25 years, offering unique opportunities to receive special graces. This event is celebrated both in Rome and in our local dioceses in communion with the universal Catholic Church. Rome’s holy doors are opened, specific feast days are celebrated in Rome and numerous pilgrimages are offered to gather Catholics. Locally, we invite you to consider how you can be involved; a pilgrimage to our Cathedral of St. Peter is a wonderful way to receive grace and indulgences.
The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas highlights these local opportunities to grow as missionary disciples, strengthen marriages and families, and to engage as Pilgrims of Hope in this 2025 Jubilee. Please check this page throughout the year as additional opportunities are anticipated!
Cathedral Regular Mass Schedule
Confessions
Adoration
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Parish or other church affiliated groups are welcome to schedule Mass, Adoration or Praise & Worship. They are required to bring their own ministers (Priest/deacon/musicians).
***Additional Information Regarding Holy Door During Jubilee Year***
2025 is also the national year of Going on Mission, issued by the U.S. Bishops. A plenary indulgence may be attained by studying the Walk With One initiative, completing the free Evangelization 101 video series in groups in a church or other suitable place (these may be determined and announced by the Archbishop or within a parish by the Pastor), and. asking God whom he wants you to accompany by interceding, connecting and inviting them home to the Church, as well as also fulfilling the general conditions of receiving any indulgence.
This indulgence is offered by the pope under the wording, “participating in popular missions, spiritual exercises, or formation activities on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, held in a church or other suitable place (these may be determined and announced by the Archbishop or within a parish by the Pastor), as well as also fulfilling the general conditions given above.”
In October of 2024 Pope Francis released the ENCYCLICAL LETTER DILEXIT NOS: ON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVE OF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRIST. (Audio available here). A plenary indulgence may be attained by reading and discussing this encyclical, especially as married couples, in formation group(s) in a church or other suitable place (these may be determined and announced by the Archbishop or within a parish by the Pastor) and pondering the great love that Christ has for all of his children, implementing the yearnings of his Sacred Heart in your heart, home and community, as well as also fulfilling the general conditions of receiving any indulgence.
Explore opportunities to reverence His Sacred Heart in your life, home, and community. This may include personal/group study of Dilexit Nos (coming) or personal home enthronement (one example HERE).
This indulgence is offered by the pope under the wording, “participating in popular missions, spiritual exercises, or formation activities on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, held in a church or other suitable place (these may be determined and announced by the Archbishop or within a parish by the Pastor), as well as also fulfilling the general conditions given above.”
Pope Francis is offering Jubilee indulgences, and he calls us to be Jesus’s hands and feet and to flood our community with his sacred heart in the areas of mercy, justice and advocacy for those in pain and disconnection.
The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas recently hosted a Mercy Summit for priests and parish leaders to explore life on mission for themselves and their parish communities, in this Eucharistic Revival Year of Mission and the 2025 Jubilee, and to unite an active community of prayer and action to live as local Missionary Disciples, reflecting the love of Jesus through concrete acts of love and mercy for our neighbors.
The summit gave us three local mercy, justice and advocacy engagement opportunities, for parishes and individuals, which can be viewed here. An plenary indulgence may be attained by visiting, for an appropriate amount of time, those who are in need or in difficulty (the sick, prisoners, the lonely among the elderly, disabled people, etc.), in a sense making a pilgrimage to Christ who is present in them (cf. Mt. 25, 34-36), as well as also fulfilling the general conditions of receiving any indulgence; the faithful can repeat these visits throughout the Holy Year, even daily, acquiring a plenary indulgence for each time.
According to the Decree on the Granting of Indulgence during the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025 issued by the Holy See, the jubilee plenary indulgence “can also be obtained through initiatives that put into practice, in a concrete and generous way, the spirit of penance which is, in a sense, the soul of the Jubilee. In particular the penitential nature of Friday can be rediscovered through abstaining, in a spirit of penance, at least for one day of the week from futile distractions (real but also virtual distractions, for example, the use of the media and/or social networks), from superfluous consumption (for example by fasting or practicing abstinence according to the general norms of the Church and the indications of the Bishops), as well as by donating a proportionate sum of money to the poor; by supporting works of a religious or social nature, especially in support of the defense and protection of life in all its phases, but also by supporting the quality of life of abandoned children, young people in difficulty, the needy or lonely elderly people, or migrants from various countries ‘who leave their homelands behind in search of a better life for themselves and for their families’ (Spes non confundit, the Bull of Indiction for the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025, 13); it can also be obtained by dedicating a reasonable portion of one’s free time to voluntary activities that are of service to the community or to other similar forms of personal commitment.”
In each case, the general conditions for acquiring a plenary indulgence, given above, must be fulfilled.
Cathedral Regular Mass Schedule
Confessions
Adoration
Docents
Parish or other church affiliated groups are welcome to schedule Mass, Adoration or Praise & Worship. They are required to bring their own ministers (Priest/deacon/musicians).