Enchiridion · Grant 4
Receive the Pope’s Urbi et Orbi blessing
Devoutly receive the Pope’s blessing to Rome and the world.
Time required Duration of the live papal blessing
- When
- When the Pope imparts the Urbi et Orbi blessing
- Where
- At the rite, or through the live broadcast described by the grant
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Receive the blessing devoutly.
- If reasonably unable to attend, follow the blessing devoutly as it is transmitted live. The Manual names television and radio; official papal liturgical booklets also include new communications media.
- The concession concerns participation as the blessing occurs; a recording is not the live participation described.
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.
Prescribed work
Complete the prescribed event
Duration of the live papal blessing
No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. Participate as the blessing is imparted; a recording is not the specified live participation.
Timing sources
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Preparation and separately fulfilled sacramental conditions, except where the prescribed work itself includes Communion or a liturgical celebration
Source and exact reference
- Enchiridion indulgentiarum, fourth edition (1999)4
- Manual of Indulgences, approved USCCB English edition (2006), hosted copy4
- Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, Easter Sunday booklet (1 April 2018)Printed pages 80–81, announcement of the Urbi et Orbi indulgence
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.