Thái Bình 90th anniversary: cathedral pilgrimage

Make a pilgrimage to Thái Bình cathedral for jubilee rites or suitable prayer during the diocesan anniversary year.

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Time required No fixed numeric duration; allow for the full prescribed work.

When: 1 January–31 December 2026
Where: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Thái Bình, Vietnam
Who: All eligible faithful making the prescribed pilgrimage
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a pilgrimage to the designated church and there devoutly take part in the jubilee rites, or spend suitable time in prayer.
For the prayer alternative, pray for Vietnam’s fidelity to its Christian vocation, priestly and religious vocations, and the protection of the institution of the family; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and an invocation to Mary, Queen of Peace.
Fulfil the usual conditions, including complete detachment from sin.

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

Duration of the pilgrimage and jubilee rites

No fixed numerical minimum is prescribed. Include the actual pilgrimage activity and celebration; a parish’s eligible adoration week is an availability window, not a seven-day work requirement.

Timing sources

Pilgrimage with suitable prayer

Duration varies

Duration of the pilgrimage and suitable prayer

The decree requires suitable prayer time but gives no number of minutes. The concluding prayers alone do not replace the pilgrimage and suitable prayer.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Sacramental confession, Holy Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, when separate from the prescribed work
Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work; required procession or pilgrimage activity remains included

Stated start: 1 January 2026
Stated end: 31 December 2026

Occasion and source notes

The published diocesan translation offers jubilee rites and suitable prayer as alternatives, placing the listed intercessions and concluding prayers in the prayer clause. Norm 19 requires the Our Father and Creed for an indulgenced church visit unless the concession provides otherwise. The original Latin has not been independently recovered here, so follow the diocese’s instructions for the particular rite. The translation does not explicitly state an additional prayer obligation on the rite route.

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.