Starunia: Apostolic Penitentiary decree announced 19 June 2022
Starunia: annual pilgrimage and commemorations
Participate in the centre’s specified annual pilgrimage services.
Time required Length of the scheduled solemn services
- When
- Third Sunday of June; Ukrainian martyrs; Nativity of John the Baptist / Simeon Lukach’s birthday; Saints Peter and Paul; Simeon Lukach’s death anniversary (22 August); establishment of the Ivano-Frankivsk Metropolia (13 December)
- Where
- Blessed Simeon Lukach Pilgrimage Centre, Starunia, Ukraine (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a pilgrimage to the centre and participate in the specified solemn services.
- The centre identifies this opportunity with the Apostolic Penitentiary decree announced on 19 June 2022.
- Use the centre’s current liturgical schedule for feast days; older notices use pre-reform civil dates.
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
Length of the scheduled solemn services
No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. Make the pilgrimage and participate in the designated services; follow the centre’s actual programme and local liturgical calendar.
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
- Blessed Simeon Lukach Pilgrimage Centre: official history2022 decree announcement and list of recurring indulgenced observances
- UGCC Synod: establishment of the Starunia indulgence centre21 June 2022; prescribed pilgrimage and participation in solemn services
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.