Angelic Warfare Confraternity membership grant
Angelic Warfare Confraternity enrollment and feasts
Enrolled members may gain the indulgence at enrollment and on six annual celebrations.
Time required Renewal and specified prayers: about 3–7 minutes (estimate); enrollment rite varies.
- When
- Enrollment; Christmas; Easter; St Thomas Aquinas (28 January); Annunciation (25 March); Assumption (15 August); All Saints (1 November).
- Where
- No special location is prescribed by this membership grant.
- Who
- Enrolled Angelic Warfare Confraternity members
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Privately renew the intention to follow the confraternity practices and statutes.
- The confraternity directs members to receive Communion that day and pray an Our Father, Hail Mary and Apostles’ Creed for the Pope’s intentions.
- Fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions. The FAQ gives an eight-day confession window; consult the director about its application alongside general Penitentiary guidance.
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.
Enrollment rite and required prayers
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.
Qualifying feast: intention renewal and Our Father, Hail Mary and Apostles’ Creed
Editorial estimate
About 3–7 minutes (editorial estimate)
No fixed minimum is prescribed. The estimate includes the simple private renewal and the three named prayers; same-day Communion and other conditions remain 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.
- Continuing confraternity practices; the confession window is not a work-duration requirement.
Occasion and source notes
Dates show customary Roman or proper religious-family celebrations. Follow lawful liturgical transfers and the grant’s own local calendar. Membership, place, frequency and other conditions remain necessary. 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.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements.
Source and exact reference
- Angelic Warfare Confraternity — official catechesisAre there any indulgences associated with the AWC?
- Dominican Friars — Angelic Warfare questionsAre there any indulgences available for those who join?
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.