General grant II
Merciful service to people in need
Give your time, effort, or possessions to meet another person’s material or spiritual need.
Time required Varies with the merciful service
- When
- Any day
- Where
- No special location prescribed
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Act from faith and a merciful disposition.
- Serve a real need, such as food, clothing, instruction, or consolation.
The work and its conditions
The general requirements include at least a general intention, the state of grace by the completion of the work, and a contrite heart. Complete the work as prescribed.
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
Duration varies
Varies with the merciful service
No fixed number of minutes is prescribed. The act must actually serve a person in need with faith and a merciful disposition.
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)General grant II
- Manual of Indulgences, approved USCCB English edition (2006), hosted copyGeneral grant II
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.