The following shrine churches have been chosen by Bishop Philip as particular places of pilgrimage, and for the granting of the indulgence in the Year of Jubilee 2025:

  • St Thomas, Jersey
  • Bournemouth Oratory
  • St John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth
  • St Edmund’s, Southampton
  • St James and St William of York, Reading
  • St Joseph’s, Guernsey

 

For group bookings, please contact the shrine church directly at the details given below

Further Reading

Jubilee Year 2025

What is a Plenary Indulgence?

What is a Pilgrimage?

Saint Thomas Roman Catholic church, Victoria Street, Jersey

St Thomas, Jersey

Mass times

Sunday: 6pm (Saturday vigil), 8am,10am,12pm

Tuesday to Friday: 6:30pm

Saturday: 12:15pm

Confession

Usually from 11 am to Noon and from 5pm – 5.45 pm

More info: Catholic Church in Jersey

Prayer to St Thomas

O Glorious Saint Thomas, your grief for Jesus was such that it would not let you believe he had risen unless you actually saw him and touched his wounds. But your love for Jesus was equally great and it led you to give up your life for him. Pray for us that we may grieve for our sins which were the cause of Christ’s sufferings. Help us to spend ourselves in his service and so earn the title of “blessed” which Jesus applied to those who would believe in him without seeing him.
Amen.  

https://www.catholicfaithstore.com/daily-bread/prayers-saint-thomas/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJuZKnt6uGpImD_RNpDMzAcQ0vXw9qKbbhMpXKvHV832KjWYLj

Bournemouth Oratory

Mass times

Sunday: 5pm (Saturday Vigil), 8am, 10:30am, 6pm

Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 7:30am

Monday to Saturday: 12:15pm

Confessions

Wednesdays & Saturdays 11am – 12pm
Daily Confessions begin half-an-hour before every Mass, for 20 minutes, and must end 10 minutes before Mass starts.

More info: Bournemouth Oratory in Formation

Sacred Heart Church, Bournemouth
Prayer to St Philip Neri

O Holy St. Philip Neri, Patron Saint of joy, you who trusted Scripture’s promise that the Lord is always at hand and that we need not have anxiety about anything,
in your compassion heal our worries and sorrows and lift the burdens from our hearts.  We come to you as one whose heart swells with abundant love for God and all creation.  Keep us safe through your loving intercession, and may the joy of the Holy Spirit which filled your heart, St. Philip, transform our lives and bring us peace.
Amen.

https://columban.org/prayers/prayer-st-philip-neri

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St John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth

Mass times

Sunday: 6pm (Saturday vigil), 8am, 10am, 12pm, 6pm

Monday to Saturday: 12:15pm

Confessions

Saturdays from 11:00-12:00 and 17:00-17:45.Also on Sundays for 30mins before Mass when a priest is available.

More info: St John’s Catholic Cathedral, Portsmouth

Prayer to St John the Evangelist

O Glorious Apostle, who, on account of your virginal purity, was most beloved by Jesus as to deserve to lay your head upon His divine breast, and to be left, in His place, as son to His most holy Mother; I beg you to inflame within me a true and ardent love towards Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me from our Lord that I, too, with a heart purified from earthly affections, may be made worthy to be ever united to Jesus as a faithful disciple, and to Mary as a devoted son, both here on earth and eternally in heaven. Amen.

https://bigccatholics.blogspot.com/2017/12/three-prayers-to-saint-john-apostle.html

St Edmund’s, Southampton

Mass times

Sunday: 9am, 11am, 7pm

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 7pm

Tuesday: 10am

Saturday: 11am

Confession

30 minutes before every mass and Saturday after the 11am mass.

More info: Southampton City Centre Catholics

 

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Prayer to St Edmund of Abingdon

Lord, into your hands and into the hands of your holy angels, I entrust this day my life, my relatives, my benefactors, my friends, and my enemies, and all your people.

Enlighten my heart with the grace of your Holy Spirit; grant that I may ever be obedient to your commandments, never let me be separated from you, who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.  Amen

https://www.st-edmunds.com/prayers-and-reflections/

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St James and St William of York, Reading

Mass times

St James:

Sunday: 6pm (Saturday vigil), 11am,12:30pm

Monday to Friday: 12:30pm

St William of York:

Sunday: 9am

Confession

Saturday: 5pm – 5:45pm at St. James.

More info: St James & St William Of York Reading | Catholic Church

Prayer to St James

O glorious Apostle, St. James, who by reason of thy fervent and generous heart was chosen by Jesus to be a witness of His glory on Mount Tabor, and of His agony in Gethsemane;

Thou, whose very name is a symbol of warfare and victory: obtain for us strength and consolation in the unending warfare of this life, that, having constantly and generously followed Jesus, we may be victors in the strife and deserve to receive the victor’s crown in heaven.

Amen.

https://www.daily-prayers.org/angels-and-saints/prayers-to-saint-james-the-apostle/

 

St Joseph’s, Guernsey

Mass times

Sunday: 8am, 10:30am

Monday: 7:30am

Tuesday to Thursday: 9:30am

Friday: 7:30am

Saturday: 10am

Confession

Saturday: 10:30am to 11am

More info: Catholic Church in Guernsey, Serving the Parish of Our Lady and the Saints of Guernsey

 

Pope Francis’s Prayer to St Joseph

Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.  Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life.  Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.

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