CV NEWS FEED // The Apostolic Penitentiary has granted a special opportunity for Catholics to receive a plenary indulgence by participating in the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
Bishop Andrew Cozzens announced the spiritual opportunity, which he described as a great grace, during an April 10 press conference for the Pilgrimage. Bishop Cozzens is chairman of the Bishops’ Advisory Group for the National Eucharistic Revival.
He said the Eucharistic Pilgrimage is very excited and grateful that Pope Francis and the Apostolic Penitentiary granted the plenary indulgence, which gives locals along the U.S. pilgrimage route the same indulgence opportunity as those traveling to the Vatican for the Jubilee. Anyone who participates in a day of the pilgrimage or one of the pilgrimage’s events and completes the usual requirements will have the opportunity to receive the indulgence.
Pope Francis has also encouraged people to offer up the plenary indulgence for souls in Purgatory, Bishop Cozzens added.
The Pilgrimage will begin May 18 in Indianapolis and will end in Los Angeles in late June. Eight Catholic young adults known as the Perpetual Pilgrims will be traveling with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament throughout the route, which spans more than 3,340 miles across 10 states. Along the way, there will be special events such as a Father’s Day Eucharistic Procession in Palm Desert, California, and Masses celebrated in five different rites and several different languages and liturgical styles.
Bishop Cozzens noted a few special intentions throughout the pilgrimage are for conversion, healing, reconciliation, and hope. The last is a virtue central to the Church’s theme for Jubilee Year 2025, which is “Pilgrims of Hope.”
The bishop said he and the other leaders in the National Eucharistic Revival, which has spearheaded the Eucharistic Congress and pilgrimages, are looking forward to the future of the movement.
“We’re excited about continuing to start the fire of evangelization and mission that’s been so much at the heart of the Eucharistic Revival — this encounter and mission — and to bring that same movement forward, as a way to serve the Church hopefully for generations,” he said.
Bishop Cozzens said the pilgrimage is hoping many people will participate in pilgrimage events, obtain the plenary indulgence, and strive to bring hope and reconciliation in the world.
“But most of all,” he said, “[we hope they] become transformed so they can be the missionaries that our Holy Father’s asking us to be in this time.”
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