Apostolic Penitentiary, 25 October 1967; current Dominican liturgical directory §V
Dominican friars: feasts and vocational occasions
The Order’s current directory confirms plenary grants for its brethren on the specified feasts and community or vocational occasions.
Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.
- When
- Christmas, Easter, Annunciation, Assumption, St Dominic, St Thomas Aquinas, St Catherine of Siena, and All Saints of the Order; General Chapter; house patron or saint/blessed whose body or principal relic is kept there; end of regular visitation; novitiate entry; first or solemn profession; 25th, 50th, 60th and 75th anniversaries of first profession.
- Where
- The Order, applicable house, or the individual brother’s specified occasion.
- Who
- Dominican friars; this directory’s grant is not automatically extended to other Dominican branches.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be a Dominican friar on the applicable occasion.
- Make or renew, at least privately, the intention faithfully to fulfill the duties of one’s vocation.
- Fulfill the usual plenary conditions: confession, Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, and 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.
Actual novitiate entry, first or solemn profession
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
Complete the actual admission procedure, rite or event specified by this grant. The source sets no fixed duration; follow the organizer’s schedule.
Timing sources
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: current calendar introduction§V, Indulgences: expressly cites the decree of 25 October 1967 and requires renewal of vocational intention.
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: 2026 OrdoProper dates and local variations; St Dominic is 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.
Qualifying feast, anniversary or community occasion: private renewal of vocational intent
Editorial estimate
About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)
No fixed duration is prescribed. About 1–5 minutes is an editorial estimate for the required private renewal. A general chapter or conclusion of visitation is an occasion of the grant; attendance at the entire event is not separately required of every member.
Timing sources
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: current calendar introduction§V, Indulgences: expressly cites the decree of 25 October 1967 and requires renewal of vocational intention.
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: 2026 OrdoProper dates and local variations; St Dominic is 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.
Occasion and source notes
The dates browser uses the usual General Roman/proper dates. Follow the lawful local Dominican calendar, including St Dominic on 3 August in Australia and New Zealand and transferred celebrations. 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.
Source and exact reference
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: current calendar introduction§V, Indulgences: expressly cites the decree of 25 October 1967 and requires renewal of vocational intention.
- Dominican Province of the Assumption: 2026 OrdoProper dates and local variations; St Dominic is 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.