Apostolic Penitentiary, 15 December 1967, as published by the Felician Kraków Province
Immaculate Heart confraternity: admission and feasts
The current confraternity instructions confirm enrollment and annual feast grants for its registered members.
Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.
- When
- Admission; Mary, Refuge of Sinners (16 January); Annunciation (25 March); Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces (7 May); Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday after Sacred Heart); Our Lady of Victories (penultimate Sunday of October); Immaculate Conception (8 December).
- Where
- The Felician confraternity at Smoleńsk 6, Kraków, affiliated to the Paris archconfraternity.
- Who
- Registered members of the documented affiliated confraternity; any Catholic may enroll, regardless of age or state.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be inscribed in the confraternity’s register.
- Make or renew privately the promise to observe the archconfraternity’s statutes.
- The membership prayer is a daily Hail Mary with the invocation to Mary as refuge of sinners.
- 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 archconfraternity enrollment and statutory promise
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.
Other listed occasions: private renewal
Editorial estimate
About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)
No fixed duration is prescribed. The 1–5 minute range is an editorial estimate for a simple private renewal. Any separately required enrollment or rite remains necessary.
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.
- The daily Hail Mary and Refuge of Sinners invocation are continuing membership duties.
Occasion and source notes
Follow the confraternity’s proper observance and lawful transfers. Our Lady of Victories is the penultimate Sunday of October; the dated examples are 18 October 2026 and 24 October 2027. The source’s first-Saturday recommendation is not an additional monthly indulgence. 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
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.