Passionist cloistered nuns: proper feasts and vocational occasions

A separate perpetual rescript specifies the occasions for Passionist nuns.

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Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.

When: St Paul of the Cross; Exaltation of the Cross; Immaculate Conception; Presentation of Mary; Our Lady of Sorrows; St Michael; solemn commemoration of the Passion; the general chapter; the house’s principal patron and saints/blesseds whose body or notable relic it holds; conclusion of regular visitation; novitiate entry; first and perpetual profession; 25th, 50th, 60th and 75th anniversaries of first profession. Also St Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary.
Where: Within the applicable institute, house or personal occasion.
Who: Passionist nuns covered by the rescript for Moniales a Passione Iesu; not every congregation or association sharing Passionist spirituality.
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make or renew, at least privately, the promise faithfully to fulfill the duties of one’s vocation.
Fulfill the usual plenary conditions: sacramental confession, Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, and complete detachment from every sin, including venial 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.

Actual novitiate entry, first or perpetual profession

Complete the prescribed event

Full rite or event; duration varies

Complete the actual admission procedure, rite or event specified by this grant. The source sets no fixed duration; follow the organizer’s schedule.

Timing sources

Qualifying feast, anniversary or community occasion: private renewal

Editorial estimate

About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)

No fixed duration is prescribed. About 1–5 minutes is an editorial estimate for the required private renewal. A chapter or conclusion of visitation is an occasion of the grant; whole-event attendance by every member is not separately required.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.

Stated start: 14 December 1967

Occasion and source notes

Follow the proper local calendar. The current proper places the Passion commemoration on the Friday before Ash Wednesday; the original rescript gives its former pre-Lent date. St Paul of the Cross is 19 October in the general proper, with 20 October in some local calendars. Annunciation, St Joseph and Immaculate Conception use standard Roman transfer rules where listed. The applicable local or proper calendar, lawful external solemnity and any specific indult govern the actual observance.

Source and exact reference

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