Sisters of Providence of Portieux in Vietnam, Prot.02803/2025-879/25/I
Sisters of Providence of Portieux: 150 years in Vietnam
Pilgrimage during the congregation’s anniversary in Vietnam.
Time required Variable: pilgrimage and rites or prayer; an impeded-person alternative is provided.
- When
- 2026-01-12–2027-01-14
- Where
- Designated churches in Vietnam; the diocesan source lists 11 sites across the Cù Lao Giêng, Cần Thơ and Tây Nguyên provinces
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit in pilgrimage the Cù Lao Giêng convent church or an approved congregation church in Vietnam, and participate in jubilee rites or spend suitable time in prayer, meditation or Christian devotion.
- For the prayer alternative, pray for God’s glory, peace and harmony among peoples and against contemporary errors; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and invocations to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy. Fulfil the usual conditions.
- Elderly or sick faithful, caregivers and others seriously unable to leave home may unite spiritually with the celebrations, offer their prayers and trials, reject sin and intend the usual conditions as soon as possible.
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.
Pilgrimage with jubilee rites
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.
Pilgrimage and prayer
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete pilgrimage/visit and the prescribed prayer or meditation are required. “Suitable time” is qualitative; no minute figure is supplied. Listed concluding prayers do not replace the preceding devotion.
Spiritual union when legitimately impeded
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Unite spiritually and perform the prescribed prayers or offering in the manner stated in this grant. No duration for suffering is imposed.
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
- 12 January 2026
- Stated end
- 14 January 2027
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Diocese of Cần Thơ: original Latin decree and Vietnamese translationDecree of 25 November 2025, Prot.02803/2025-879/25/I; original Latin image, operative and impeded clauses; list of 11 pilgrimage sites
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum: church-visit normNorm 19: general Our Father and profession of faith for a plenary church or oratory visit, unless the particular concession prescribes otherwise
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.