L.A. Archdiocese joins Catholics for Jubilee Year dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe
L.A. Archdiocese joins Catholics around the world in celebrating start of Jubilee Year dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Pope Leo XIV has granted a Guadalupan Jubilee Year beginning today to mark the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the new Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and the transfer of the image of the Virgin to the current shrine on Oct. 12, 1976. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles joins faithful across the world to commemorate this special time in honor of the Virgin Mary, with ongoing celebrations and upcoming special events. The Archdiocese unites fraternally in a special way with the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Archdiocese of Mexico City as Los Angeles is home to the only known relic in the United States of the Tilma of St. Juan Diego, a small piece of his cloak where the miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared. The relic is enshrined in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles and exposed for veneration daily.
“This is a great Jubilee,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez. “Now is the hour to live our faith with attentive hearts, with new seriousness and new joy; to go deeper in prayer and study, to grow in our knowledge and love for Jesus and His mother; and to embrace more fully our responsibility to spread the faith and bring others to Jesus. Now is also the hour for a new commitment to the continental mission, to the evangelization of the Americas, beginning in our own country.”
To celebrate this momentous occasion in our church, which also coincides with the 495th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparition to St. Juan Diego, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is announcing that the 2027 Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Mexico City in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place on the first weekend of July 2027.
Archbishop Gomez will once again celebrate two Masses of Thanksgiving as part of the 2027 Archdiocesan Pilgrimage at two very special locations: Friday, July 2, 2027, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City and Saturday, July 3, 2027, at noon at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
During this special Jubilee Year, plenary indulgence will be granted to the faithful who visit “with devotion and a contrite spirit the sacred house of St. Mary of Guadalupe and participate in a liturgical act or spend time in prayer at the basilica.” To receive it, they must also fulfill the usual conditions established by the Church: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, recitation of the Creed, and prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father.
During the 2026 pilgrimage, more than 300 faithful from across the Archdiocese joined Archbishop Gomez for a special Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. During the Mass, Archbishop Gomez presented 45,000 prayer intentions for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe from faithful across the Archdiocese many of which were collected during the 2025 pilgrimage of the images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego throughout the Archdiocese.
This year, the pilgrimage of the images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego is currently underway and continues to collect prayer petitions from the faithful, which will be visiting a total of 70 parishes and three Catholic cemeteries throughout the Archdiocese, including the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura, in spiritual preparation for the 95th Procession and Mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the oldest religious procession in Los Angeles, taking place on Sunday, December 6. This celebration was established in 1931 by Mexican Catholics who fled persecution by the Mexican government during the Cristero War. For more information and full pilgrimage schedule, please visit lacatholics.org/guadalupe.
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