2015 Apostolic Penitentiary concession, renewed through 31 August 2029
Santa Maria dell’Orto: membership occasions and feasts
The Roman archconfraternity confirms a renewed plenary grant for its members on the specified occasions.
Time required Admission or public pledge ceremony varies; the listed feasts have no separate timed exercise.
- When
- Enrollment/vestition; making or renewing the statutory pledge; Nativity of Mary (8 September); titular feast (third Sunday of October); coronation commemoration (second Sunday of May).
- Where
- The applicable occasions of the Archconfraternity of Santa Maria dell’Orto, Rome.
- Who
- Actual members of this archconfraternity, not every visitor to its church.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be a member of the Archconfraternity of Santa Maria dell’Orto, sincerely repentant and acting in charity.
- For the statutory-vow route, make or renew the pledge of fidelity to the statutes; private renewal is expressly allowed only when gravely impeded.
- 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 enrollment, vestition, or public statutory pledge
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
No fixed duration is prescribed. Complete actual enrollment/vestition or the public statutory pledge; private renewal is permitted only for the gravely impeded.
Gravely impeded member: authorized private statutory renewal
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 a simple private renewal, which this grant permits only when gravely impeded.
Listed confraternity feasts
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.
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.
- Stated end
- 31 August 2029
Occasion and source notes
The two Sunday feasts are calculated for the remaining verified term. The fixed 8 September route ceases to be current after the stated end of the concession.
The current institutional page expressly confirms renewal through 31 August 2029. The former Wix site ends at 2022 and is superseded on this point. The actual renewed rescript is not reproduced on the retrieved page.
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.