Apostolic Penitentiary, 1 October 1968, as reproduced by the Felician provinces
Holy Face Archconfraternity: enrollment and feasts
Current Felician publications reproduce a post-reform grant for members of their Tours-affiliated Holy Face confraternity.
Time required Actual enrollment varies; no separate timed exercise is prescribed for the feasts.
- When
- Enrollment; Holy Face feast on Friday before Ash Wednesday in the documented Kraków provincial observance; Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September); St Peter (29 June); fifth Sunday of Lent.
- Where
- The documented Kraków Felician confraternity, affiliated to the Archconfraternity at Tours.
- Who
- Enrolled members of this affiliated confraternity; no independent grant for every Holy Face prayer or medal is asserted.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be actually enrolled in the confraternity, not merely a devotee of the Holy Face.
- Membership duties include daily Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be with the Holy Face invocation, wearing its medal/cross/scapular, and promoting the devotion as able.
- 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 Holy Face confraternity enrollment
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
- Felician Sisters, Kraków Province: Holy Face Archconfraternity18 November 2020: membership duties and five occasions under the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician Sisters, Warsaw Province: Posiew Miłości 4/105 (2022)Printed p.15 reproduces the 1972 membership card, its duties and the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician museum: Holy Face Archconfraternity, English account30 October 2018: English translation differs from the Polish publications over the weekday of the Holy Face feast.
Qualifying membership feast
Duration varies
No fixed duration is prescribed
The source prescribes no separate timed exercise for this occasion. Follow all membership and usual plenary conditions; their practical time varies.
Timing sources
- Felician Sisters, Kraków Province: Holy Face Archconfraternity18 November 2020: membership duties and five occasions under the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician Sisters, Warsaw Province: Posiew Miłości 4/105 (2022)Printed p.15 reproduces the 1972 membership card, its duties and the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician museum: Holy Face Archconfraternity, English account30 October 2018: English translation differs from the Polish publications over the weekday of the Holy Face feast.
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.
- Daily Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be and invocation, and wearing the devotional object, are continuing membership duties.
Occasion and source notes
The Holy Face date follows the Kraków province’s explicit Polish novena schedule and feast notice: Friday before Ash Wednesday (Easter − 51 days). The museum’s English translation says Tuesday; this discrepancy is retained, and this local Friday observance is not generalized to other Holy Face associations. Follow any lawful change in the confraternity’s proper calendar.
Source and exact reference
- Felician Sisters, Kraków Province: Holy Face Archconfraternity18 November 2020: membership duties and five occasions under the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician Sisters, Warsaw Province: Posiew Miłości 4/105 (2022)Printed p.15 reproduces the 1972 membership card, its duties and the 1 October 1968 grant.
- Felician museum: Holy Face Archconfraternity, English account30 October 2018: English translation differs from the Polish publications over the weekday of the Holy Face feast.
- Felician Sisters, Kraków Province: local Holy Face novenaPublished 11 February 2021: expressly identifies the feast as Friday before Ash Wednesday; the published nine-day order begins Wednesday and ends Thursday.
- Felician museum: Holy Face feast notice, 9 February 2018Separate Polish feast notice states the annual Friday before Ash Wednesday observance; publication on 9 February 2018 corresponds to that actual Friday.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.