Good Shepherd Institute twentieth-anniversary concession
Good Shepherd Institute: locally chosen jubilee day
Attend the locally designated anniversary thanksgiving.
Time required The thanksgiving Mass or other sacred celebration, for its actual duration.
- When
- One locally designated day between 2026-09-01 and 2027-09-30; ask the apostolate for its date
- Where
- Institute of the Good Shepherd oratories and churches served by its priests, even only on that day
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Devoutly attend Mass or another sacred thanksgiving celebration on the one day chosen by the local superior.
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.
Mass or sacred thanksgiving celebration
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Participation in the prescribed celebration is required; allow for its actual schedule and any pilgrimage, visit or prayers specified for this route.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration
- Stated start
- 1 September 2026
- Stated end
- 30 September 2027
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.