Sacred Penitentiary, 22 January 1972, Prot. 4/72
Secular Franciscan admission, profession or visitation
A perpetual grant covers three particular occasions in Secular Franciscan life.
Time required Admission or profession varies; at visitation’s conclusion, private renewal may take about 1–5 minutes (estimate).
- When
- Admission; profession; conclusion of an official visitation.
- Where
- No special location is prescribed by this membership grant.
- Who
- Members of the Secular Franciscan Order
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make or renew, at least privately, the promise to observe the association’s statutes.
- Fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions.
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 or profession with the statutory commitment
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
Complete actual admission or profession. No fixed duration is prescribed; a brief private renewal alone does not establish either personal milestone.
At the conclusion of the official visitation: statutory-promise 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 at this qualifying occasion. The grant does not state that each member must attend the entire visitation.
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.
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.
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.