Praszka feast days: provision for the impeded

Spiritually join the shrine’s designated observances when seriously prevented from visiting.

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Time required Time of spiritual participation and offering; no fixed minimum

When: Monday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent; Exaltation of the Cross; Divine Mercy Sunday; Sacred Heart; Annunciation; Nativity of Mary; Palm Sunday through Divine Mercy Sunday; the 13th of May–October; second through third Sundays of August; Saint John Paul II; Our Lady Queen of Palestine; Holy Family
Where: Where the person is prevented
Who: Faithful prevented by age, illness, or another serious cause
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be prevented from visiting through age, illness, or another serious cause.
Be detached from every sin and intend to fulfil the three ordinary plenary conditions as soon as possible.
Join spiritually with those making the devout visit, offering prayers and suffering or the difficulties of life to the merciful God.

The work and its conditions

This grant has a special provision for the ordinary conditions. Follow the requirements above and the source closely.

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.

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Time required

Read each branch with its own conditions. An editorial estimate is not a prescribed minimum.

Prescribed work

Duration varies

Time of spiritual participation and offering; no fixed minimum

No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. The serious impediment, spiritual union and offering of prayers and sufferings govern this alternative; no visit duration is imported.

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

Occasion and source notes

These are liturgical observances; the shrine calendar controls any transferred feast.

Source and exact reference

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