Secular Trinitarian Order: enrollment, profession and feasts

The official directory distinguishes secular-order membership from the confraternity.

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Time required Actual personal rites vary; no separate timed exercise is specified for the other listed occasions.

When: Enrollment; profession. Also: Holy Trinity; Most Holy Redeemer Jesus of Nazareth (23 October); Our Lady of Good Remedy (8 October); St John de Matha (17 December); St Felix de Valois (4 November); St John Baptist of the Conception (14 February); St Michael of the Saints (8 June).
Where: No special location prescribed by this membership grant.
Who: Members of the Secular Order of the Most Holy Trinity.
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be enrolled in the Secular Order of the Most Holy Trinity and observe its proper commitments.
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 secular-order enrollment or profession

Complete the prescribed event

Full rite or event; duration varies

Complete the actual personal admission or rite and maintain the proper commitments of this member class. No fixed duration is prescribed; this source does not state a separate private-renewal requirement for every occasion.

Timing sources

Other qualifying feasts, anniversaries or community occasions

Duration varies

No fixed duration is prescribed

No separate timed exercise is stated for the applicable listed occasion. The source does not require every eligible member to attend the whole chapter or visitation. Follow all membership and usual plenary conditions.

Timing sources

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.
Continuing commitments of the member’s proper state.

Occasion and source notes

Uses the Order’s proper calendar: St Agnes on 28 January and St Michael of the Saints on 8 June. Follow lawful transfers and the applicable community calendar.

Source and exact reference

Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.