Jasna Góra: spiritual pilgrimage from home

The seriously impeded may unite with the shrine’s pilgrims through prayer.

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Time required Time of spiritual pilgrimage and prescribed prayers

When: In spiritual union with a qualifying shrine pilgrimage
Where: Where the person is prevented
Who: Faithful unable to leave home because of illness, age, or another serious cause
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be unable to leave home for the shrine because of illness, age, or another serious cause.
Before an image of Our Lady of Częstochowa, pray the Our Father, Creed, and a Marian prayer for Poland’s Christian vocation, priestly and religious vocations, and protection of the family.
Unite spiritually with the pilgrims; offer prayers and suffering to the merciful God through Mary.

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.

Spiritual union with a qualifying group pilgrimage

Duration varies

Time of spiritual pilgrimage and prescribed prayers

No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. Pray before the specified image, unite with the pilgrims and offer prayers and suffering; no fixed duration is stated. The chosen-day route requires an actual qualifying group pilgrimage with which to unite spiritually.

Timing sources

Spiritual union on the other prescribed feast or annual occasion

Duration varies

Time of spiritual pilgrimage and prescribed prayers

No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. Pray before the specified image, unite with the pilgrims and offer prayers and suffering; no fixed duration is stated. These underlying feast or once-yearly occasions remain limited as stated in the grant.

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

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.