MI membership grant; decree of 24 October 1967
Militia of the Immaculata enrollment and annual feasts
The official national centers report an enrollment indulgence and annual membership grants.
Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.
- When
- Actual enrollment and its annual anniversary; Our Lady of Lourdes (11 February); Annunciation (25 March); Our Lady of Fatima (13 May); Assumption (15 August); St Francis (4 October); MI foundation anniversary (16 October); Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (27 November); Immaculate Conception (8 December). Follow the applicable lawful liturgical calendar.
- Where
- No special location is prescribed by this membership grant.
- Who
- Enrolled Militia of the Immaculata members
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be validly enrolled in the canonically established Militia of the Immaculata, with the name entered in a lawful local or national center’s register after the required preparation and Marian consecration.
- Membership context: the approved statutes call for a daily offering to the Immaculata and the MI invocation, and wearing the Miraculous Medal. These describe the association’s commitments; they do not establish additional indulgenced days.
- Renew the Marian consecration and fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions.
- The current national directions also attest the Immaculate Conception (USA and Poland), Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Great Britain/Ireland and Poland), and the annual anniversary of personal enrollment (Great Britain/Ireland). The source attribution is an evidence distinction, not a claim of a legal national restriction.
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 admission and Marian consecration
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
- Militia of the Immaculata USA — consecration and indulgencesCurrent USA national directions: explicitly attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967, includes 8 December, and requires renewed consecration.
- Militia of the Immaculata Great Britain and Ireland — enrollmentCurrent Great Britain and Ireland national directions: explicitly includes 27 November and the anniversary of enrollment, separately describes actual enrollment, and attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967.
- MI International — approved General Statutes (2015)Approval of 25 March 2015, Prot.299/15/AIC-75; Articles 6 and 15–17 on prayer, medal, consecration and actual registration. Membership context, not a new indulgence decree.
- MI in the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec: membership indulgencesCurrent Polish institutional list includes both 27 November and 8 December; corroborates these occasions without supplying the original rescript.
Qualifying feast or enrollment anniversary: renewal of Marian consecration
Editorial estimate
About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)
No fixed duration or universally mandatory timed formula is established here. The 1–5 minute range is an editorial estimate for a simple renewal; use the actual valid enrollment procedure for admission.
Timing sources
- Militia of the Immaculata USA — consecration and indulgencesCurrent USA national directions: explicitly attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967, includes 8 December, and requires renewed consecration.
- Militia of the Immaculata Great Britain and Ireland — enrollmentCurrent Great Britain and Ireland national directions: explicitly includes 27 November and the anniversary of enrollment, separately describes actual enrollment, and attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967.
- MI International — approved General Statutes (2015)Approval of 25 March 2015, Prot.299/15/AIC-75; Articles 6 and 15–17 on prayer, medal, consecration and actual registration. Membership context, not a new indulgence decree.
- MI in the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec: membership indulgencesCurrent Polish institutional list includes both 27 November and 8 December; corroborates these occasions without supplying the original rescript.
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 offering, Marian prayer, and the Miraculous Medal as continuing membership context.
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.
This listing follows current competent institutional directions. The complete 1967 rescript has not been recovered, so reconciliation of the national summaries and any precise limitations remain documentary questions. No national legal restriction or new grant is inferred from those differences.
The current USA and Great Britain/Ireland centers both attribute these membership indulgences to the Apostolic Penitentiary decree of 24 October 1967 and require renewal of Marian consecration or MI commitment with the usual plenary conditions. Their lists are not identical, but omission from one list is not a denial of an occasion expressly taught by another competent national center. The UK page explicitly distinguishes the annual enrollment anniversary from actual enrollment.
Source and exact reference
- Militia of the Immaculata USA — consecration and indulgencesCurrent USA national directions: explicitly attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967, includes 8 December, and requires renewed consecration.
- Militia of the Immaculata Great Britain and Ireland — enrollmentCurrent Great Britain and Ireland national directions: explicitly includes 27 November and the anniversary of enrollment, separately describes actual enrollment, and attributes the annual list to 24 October 1967.
- MI International — approved General Statutes (2015)Approval of 25 March 2015, Prot.299/15/AIC-75; Articles 6 and 15–17 on prayer, medal, consecration and actual registration. Membership context, not a new indulgence decree.
- MI in the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec: membership indulgencesCurrent Polish institutional list includes both 27 November and 8 December; corroborates these occasions without supplying the original rescript.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.