Passion reading and meditation for those impeded from the Stations

If legitimately prevented from making the Stations, spend time reading and meditating on Christ’s Passion and death.

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Time required A suitable period of Passion reading and meditation; the grant suggests 15 minutes

When: Any day
Where: Wherever the impeded person can pray
Who: Faithful legitimately impeded from making the Way of the Cross
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

A legitimate impediment prevents the usual Way of the Cross.
Devote time to both devotional reading and meditation on the Lord’s Passion and death.
The grant gives a quarter of an hour as its example of a suitable period.

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.

Impeded from the usual Stations

Duration varies

Suitable time; 15 minutes is an example

The Manual gives a quarter-hour as an example, not a strict numeric minimum. A legitimate impediment and both reading and meditation on the Passion are required.

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

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