Morristown: Carmelite monastery centenary

Visit and pray in the Morristown Carmelite monastery chapel during its centenary jubilee.

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Time required Variable: a chapel visit and the Our Father and Creed.

When: During the currently announced centenary jubilee, through 26 December 2026
Where: Carmelite monastery chapel, 189 Madison Avenue, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Who: Eligible faithful who visit and pray in the chapel
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Visit the chapel of the Discalced Carmelites of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel at 189 Madison Avenue, Morristown, New Jersey.
Recite the Our Father and Creed, and fulfil the usual plenary conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions and complete detachment from sin.
The monastery’s own published flyer explicitly attributes this jubilee concession to the Holy See; the diocesan newspaper and local parish supply the visit prayers and closing date. The precise decree commencement was not recovered, so no start date is inferred.

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.

Chapel visit and prayer

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

Complete the devout chapel visit and the prescribed prayers. The sources state no fixed minimum; the few minutes needed for the listed prayers do not measure the complete visit.

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 end: 26 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.