09/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year to commemorate the eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi. This Year of Saint Francis will invite believers and communities to rediscover the way of life of the Saint of Assisi: a life that is simple and essential, open to peace, fraternity, and respect for creation.
The Apostolic Penitentiary grants a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, to those who take part in the Jubilee initiatives with a sincere spirit and a willingness to undergo inner conversion, expressing their faith also through responsible choices toward the world we inhabit.
The Year of Saint Francis is intended in a particular way for the various Franciscan communities—religious men and women and lay members of the First, Second, and Third Orders, both regular and secular—as well as for all communities and associations inspired by Franciscan spirituality. Nevertheless, the invitation is open to all: anyone may experience this time of grace by making a pilgrimage to a Franciscan church or to a place dedicated to Saint Francis anywhere in the world, rediscovering in prayer the value of simplicity and the care of our common home.
This Jubilee Year, which marks eight centuries of Franciscan memory, is above all an invitation to action.
The example of Saint Francis, a man of poverty, humility, and reconciliation, urges us to live a concrete charity, to build more just relationships, and to foster peace, caring for people and for the environment as inseparable gifts.
Conditions for receiving the Indulgence (for oneself or for the deceased)
* Sacramental confession to be in God’s grace (in the eight days before or after).
* Participation in Mass and Eucharistic Communion.
* To visit in the form of a pilgrimage any Franciscan conventual church or place of worship dedicated to St. Francis anywhere in the world, where one renews one’s profession of faith, through the recitation of the Creed, to reaffirm one’s Christian identity (Every Friday at 6pm, the Father Grace chapel will be open for Eucharistic Adoration).
* The recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, to reaffirm the dignity of children of God, received in Baptism.
* To pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, to reaffirm belonging to the Church, whose foundation and visible center of unity is the Roman Pontiff.