Sacred Penitentiary, 25 October 1967; Polish Living Rosary statutes §6
Living Rosary: admission and annual feast days
The Polish association’s current approved statutes preserve eight member opportunities.
Time required Actual enrollment varies; no separate timed exercise is prescribed on the feasts.
- When
- Admission; Christmas; Easter; Annunciation; Assumption; Our Lady of the Rosary; Immaculate Conception; Presentation of the Lord.
- Where
- No special location prescribed by this membership grant.
- Who
- Members of Żywy Różaniec under the Polish Episcopal Conference’s approved statutes. The source’s jurisdiction is Poland.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Belong to the Living Rosary association; its commitment includes daily meditation on one assigned Rosary mystery with the corresponding decade.
- Fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions.
The work and its conditions
A plenary indulgence also requires complete detachment from every sin, sacramental confession, Holy Communion, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, subject to the grant’s stated exceptions. The ordinary limit is one plenary indulgence per day.
Conditions common to every indulgence
The person gaining an indulgence must be baptized, not excommunicated, and in the state of grace at least when the prescribed works are completed. There must be at least a general intention to gain indulgences, and the prescribed work must be performed at the time and in the manner required by the grant.
Read the full conditions and norms. The cited grant and its specific provisions govern.
Time required
Read each branch with its own conditions. An editorial estimate is not a prescribed minimum.
Actual Living Rosary enrollment
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
Complete the actual admission procedure, rite or event specified by this grant. The source sets no fixed duration; follow the organizer’s schedule.
Qualifying membership feast
Duration varies
No fixed duration is prescribed
The source prescribes no separate timed exercise for this occasion. Follow all membership and usual plenary conditions; their practical time varies.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.
- The continuing duty of the assigned daily decade.
Occasion and source notes
Dates show customary Roman or proper religious-family celebrations. Follow lawful liturgical transfers and the grant’s own local calendar. Membership, place, frequency and other conditions remain necessary. Annunciation, St Joseph and Immaculate Conception use standard Roman transfer rules where listed. The applicable local or proper calendar, lawful external solemnity and any specific indult govern the actual observance.
Source and exact reference
- Living Rosary Association — statutes approved by Polish Episcopal Conference, 11 October 2022§6.1; §1 territorial scope; final approval clause
- Archdiocese of Poznań — Living Rosary statutesPrivileges of members; Sacred Penitentiary decree 25 October 1967
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.