Enchiridion · Grant 11 §1
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity celebrations
Join several celebrations during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and its closing celebration.
Time required Some of the week’s services plus its concluding celebration
- When
- The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- Where
- At the week’s celebrations
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Participate in some of the week’s services.
- Also attend the conclusion of the same week.
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
Some of the week’s services plus its concluding celebration
No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. Attendance on the prescribed occasions is required; the Week of Prayer is not a demand for seven days of uninterrupted activity.
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)11 §1
- Manual of Indulgences, approved USCCB English edition (2006), hosted copy11 §1
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.