Jubilee Pilgrimage Sites in the Archdiocese of Washington
In his Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, Spes non Confundit, the Holy Father wrote, “Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:19). That life becomes manifest in our own life of faith, which begins with Baptism, develops in openness to God’s grace and is enlivened by a hope constantly renewed and confirmed by the working of the Holy Spirit.” (3).
Among the ways we live out the Jubilee Year is through prayer and pilgrimage. Making a pilgrimage allows us to intentionally have the aim to encounter the Lord, who is the Way, in the rough path or arduous walk, in the silence of our journey or the silence we keep before him in the Blessed Sacrament, in the friendships we form with fellow pilgrims and in the created nature.
Since only a few people will be able to travel to Rome throughout the Jubilee Year 2025 to pass through any of the four Jubilee Doors, Cardinal Wilton Gregory has designated several churches within our archdiocese as Jubilee Pilgrimage Sites where the faithful will be able to pray the official prayer for Jubilee Year 2025, participate in liturgical and catechetical events, deepen their openness to God’s grace and the working of the Holy Spirit and unite themselves spiritually with all who will journey as pilgrims to Rome.
Pilgrimage Sites in the Archdiocese of Washington
Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle
1725 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
202-347-3215
More information at Mass & Confessions | Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington
Holy Comforter—Saint Cyprian Catholic Church
1357 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC, 20003
202-347-3215
More information at www.hcscchurch.org
Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church
12701 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville, MD 20853
301-946-8200
More information at More information at Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church – Rockville, MD
Saint John Neumann Catholic Church
9000 Warfield Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20882
301-977-5492
More information at St. John Neumann Catholic Church – Gaithersburg, MD
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
16501 Annapolis Road, Bowie, MD 20715
301-262-0704
More information at Sacred Heart Catholic Church – Bowie, MD
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church
5700 Saint Bernard Drive Riverdale Park, MD, 20737
301-277-1000
More information at St. Bernard of Clairvaux – Riverdale Park, MD
Saint Anthony Catholic Church
8816 Chesapeake Avenue North Beach, MD 20714
443-646-5721
More information at St. Anthony Catholic Church – North Beach, MD
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
201 Saint Mary’s Avenue La Plata, MD 20646
301-934-2261
More information at www.sacredheartlaplata.org
Saint Aloysius Catholic Church
22800 Washington St, Leonardtown, MD 20650
301-475-8064
More information at St. Aloysius Church – Leonardtown, MD
University of Maryland Catholic Student Center
4141 Guilford Dr, College Park, MD 20740
301-864-6223
More information at Home | UMD
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
400 Michigan Avenue, Northeast Washington, D.C. 20017
202-526-8300
More information at The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Saint John Paul II National Shrine
3900 Harewood Road, NE Washington, DC 20017
202-635-5400
More information at Home | Saint John Paul II National Shrine
Contact the Office of Evangelization – Archdiocese of Washington for more information.