The Holy Year is also a time to receive plenary indulgences, which offer forgiveness for the temporal consequences of sins already forgiven (things we do to make things right with God). By participating in acts of mercy, receiving the Sacraments, and engaging in the events of the Holy Year, you can receive this grace and experience deeper reconciliation with God. It’s a beautiful opportunity to begin anew and experience God’s complete forgiveness. This means that when we sin, there is a need to have God forgive those sins and there is also a need of the effects of that sin to be cleaned up before getting to Heaven.

A plenary indulgence cleanses the soul as if the person had just been baptized. Plenary indulgences obtained during the Jubilee Year can also be applied to souls in purgatory with
the possibility of obtaining two plenary indulgences for the deceased in one day, according to the Apostolic Penitentiary.

Additional Resources 
on Indulgences

Vatican Decree on the Granting of the Indulgence during the Jubilee Year 

Spes Non Confundit
Letter from Pope Francis

​News Article: How to Obtain a Plenary Indulgence during the 2025 Jubilee

Step 1

Be free of any mortal sin on your soul (go to confession)

Step 2

Perform ONE of these Jubilee works

• Undertake a pious pilgrimage to a Jubilee site and participate in Mass, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, etc.

• Pray at a designated Jubilee site, for a suitable period of time and engage in Eucharistic Adoration and mediation, concluding with the Our Father, the Creed, and invocations to Mary the Mother of God, for example, The Memorare.

• Participate in popular missions, spiritual exercises, or formation activities on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

• Perform a Corporal or Spiritual Work of Mercy (help the sick, feed the poor, visit the lonely, etc.)

• Fast one day during the week (from food, technology, etc.)

Step 3

Meet ALL of these requirements for EACH indulgence

• Go to confession 20 days before or after the Jubilee work from step 2
• Receive Holy Communion - Ideally on the same day but within one week.
• Pray for the Pope - we suggest one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.
• Be free from any attachment to sin. Although a person might still sin, as we all do, or even be inclined to habitual sin, such as using God's name in vain, yet so long as the attachment to the sin or the desire to commit it is absent from the person's soul, he or she would be considered "free from attachment to sin"  If this disposition is in any way less than perfect or if any of the prescribed three conditions are not fulfilled, the Indulgence will only be partial.

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Note:  Those who are homebound can receive an indulgence by meeting the normal requirements and reciting an Our Father and the Creed, and offering their sufferings or the hardship of their lives.