Apostolic Penitentiary, 20 January 2003, Prot.12/03/I
Padua’s Scoletta Oratory: three annual occasions
The perpetual oratory grant is available to eligible faithful, including nonmembers.
Time required Participation in a sacred celebration, or a devout visit with Our Father and Creed: about 5–15 minutes for the prayer route (estimate).
- When
- Immaculate Conception (8 December); St Anthony (13 June); translation of St Anthony’s relics (15 February).
- Where
- Oratory of the Archconfraternity, Scoletta del Santo, Piazza del Santo, Padua, Italy.
- Who
- All faithful able to gain an indulgence; membership is not required.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Go devoutly to the Archconfraternity’s Scoletta Oratory on a specified occasion.
- There, participate in a sacred celebration, or at least devoutly recite the Our Father and Creed, as the rescript’s express alternatives provide.
- Fulfill the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from sin.
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.
Participate in a sacred celebration in the Scoletta
Complete the prescribed event
Participation in the sacred celebration; duration varies
The rescript expressly permits a sacred celebration as an alternative to the named-prayer route. No fixed duration is prescribed; follow the actual celebration’s schedule. The original rescript uses participation language without a separate every-minute attendance threshold.
Timing sources
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: original oratory rescriptOne-page signed Latin rescript, 20 January 2003, Prot.12/03/I; explicitly perpetual, with sacred celebration or Our Father and Creed alternatives.
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: current indulgence summarySection Tutti i fedeli; the original rescript contains the fuller alternative works.
Devout oratory visit with Our Father and Creed
Editorial estimate
About 5–15 minutes at the church (editorial estimate)
No fixed minimum is prescribed. About 5–15 minutes is an editorial estimate for the visit and short prayers; devotion, the complete prayers, and the specified place remain necessary.
Timing sources
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: original oratory rescriptOne-page signed Latin rescript, 20 January 2003, Prot.12/03/I; explicitly perpetual, with sacred celebration or Our Father and Creed alternatives.
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: current indulgence summarySection Tutti i fedeli; the original rescript contains the fuller alternative works.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel and waiting; a pilgrimage itself remains part of the work where required.
- Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.
- Stated start
- 20 January 2003
Occasion and source notes
Follow the Scoletta’s lawful liturgical observance and opening arrangements. Annunciation, St Joseph and Immaculate Conception use standard Roman transfer rules where listed. The applicable local or proper calendar, lawful external solemnity and any specific indult govern the actual observance.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: original oratory rescriptOne-page signed Latin rescript, 20 January 2003, Prot.12/03/I; explicitly perpetual, with sacred celebration or Our Father and Creed alternatives.
- St Anthony Archconfraternity: current indulgence summarySection Tutti i fedeli; the original rescript contains the fuller alternative works.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.