Lourdes Volunteers: ordinary seven-year grant, 2020–2027
Lourdes Volunteers: hosted local pilgrimage experience through July 2027
Participate in the association’s authorized, in-person Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience.
Time required Participate in the hosted pilgrimage program; the association advertises about two hours in parishes or forty minutes in classrooms.
- When
- An authorized hosted event between 16 July 2020 and 15 July 2027 inclusive.
- Where
- The actual authorized parish, school or other local venue hosting the Lourdes Volunteers program.
- Who
- Catholic faithful taking part in the specified Lourdes Volunteers pilgrimage or authorized hosted experience; formal association membership is not required.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Participate devoutly in the actual Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience hosted with Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers. Here “virtual” means a guided local, in-person devotional event, not merely watching an online tour.
- The hosted program recreates the pilgrimage through its Lourdes presentation, water and Grotto-rock encounter, Rosary procession and Eucharistic devotion according to the actual program.
- Fulfill the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from sin.
- Pray for the Pope’s intentions; the association’s directions give the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.
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.
Authorized local, in-person Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience
Complete the prescribed event
Actual participation; duration varies
The stated two-hour or forty-minute program lengths describe the organizer’s programs; they are not legal minima. The work is participation in the actual authorized pilgrimage experience. The retrieved directions do not specify a numeric duration or a separate every-minute attendance rule.
Timing sources
- Lourdes Volunteers: current indulgence directionsOrdinary 16 July 2020–15 July 2027 grant; eligible acts and usual conditions.
- Lourdes Volunteers: official 2020–2027 indulgence pamphletTwo-page institutional publication: ordinary seven-year pilgrimage grant is distinct from the separately printed pandemic-only broadcast extension.
- Lourdes Volunteers: institutional fact sheetSeparately identifies the ordinary grant’s exact dates and the pandemic-only remote extension.
- Lourdes Volunteers: description of the hosted experienceDefines the devotional program; advertises parish programs of about two hours and school programs of forty minutes, not an indulgence minimum.
- Lourdes Volunteers: host directionsAuthorized guides, local bishop’s permission and concrete in-person arrangements.
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
- 16 July 2020
- Stated end
- 15 July 2027
Occasion and source notes
The current public association’s directions and official pamphlet establish these ordinary routes and their exact term; the signed rescript was not recovered. A separate pandemic-only concession for internet, television or radio broadcasts is not asserted to remain in effect. Donation is not an indulgence condition.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements.
Source and exact reference
- Lourdes Volunteers: current indulgence directionsOrdinary 16 July 2020–15 July 2027 grant; eligible acts and usual conditions.
- Lourdes Volunteers: official 2020–2027 indulgence pamphletTwo-page institutional publication: ordinary seven-year pilgrimage grant is distinct from the separately printed pandemic-only broadcast extension.
- Lourdes Volunteers: institutional fact sheetSeparately identifies the ordinary grant’s exact dates and the pandemic-only remote extension.
- Lourdes Volunteers: description of the hosted experienceDefines the devotional program; advertises parish programs of about two hours and school programs of forty minutes, not an indulgence minimum.
- Lourdes Volunteers: host directionsAuthorized guides, local bishop’s permission and concrete in-person arrangements.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.