Hong Kong anniversary celebrations for those seriously impeded

Those unable to attend an appointed anniversary celebration for a serious reason may join its live broadcast, or unite spiritually with the stated prayers and offering.

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Time required Duration of the live celebration, or spiritual union with prescribed prayers and offering.

When: In union with the appointed celebrations on 8 December 2025, 11 April 2026 or 8 December 2026
Where: Where the seriously impeded faithful are situated, in union with the Hong Kong cathedral celebration
Who: Faithful unable to attend an appointed anniversary celebration for a serious reason
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be unable for a serious reason to attend one of the three appointed cathedral celebrations. The notice gives examples including cloistered religious, older or sick people, prisoners and healthcare workers.
Either participate through the live online broadcast of that celebration; or unite spiritually with those attending, recite the Our Father, Creed and diocesan 80th-anniversary prayer at home or where impeded, and offer personal suffering or life’s labours to God.
Fulfil the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from sin. The Chancery specifically directs confession within three weeks before or after the work, Communion during Mass, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions (an Our Father and Hail Mary may fulfil that prayer).
This provision concerns the three appointed celebrations; it does not create an unrestricted daily remote visit. The notice does not expressly defer the sacramental 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.

Live broadcast of an appointed cathedral celebration

Complete the prescribed event

Length of the prescribed celebration.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Follow the live celebration when seriously impeded; the ceremony’s schedule determines its duration.

Timing sources

Spiritual union, prayers and offering

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

Unite with an appointed celebration; recite the Our Father, Creed and anniversary prayer and offer suffering or life’s labours. No fixed duration is stated.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work; required procession or pilgrimage activity remains included
Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration

Stated start: 8 December 2025
Stated end: 8 December 2026

Prayer texts and resources

Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.

Source and exact reference

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