Sacred Penitentiary, 22 January 1972, Prot. 4/72
Secular Franciscan annual feasts
The same perpetual grant includes eight annual celebrations.
Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (editorial estimate).
- When
- Blessed Luchesius (28 April); St Margaret of Cortona (16 May); St Clare (11 August); St Louis (25 August); St Francis (4 October); St Elizabeth (17 November); All Saints of the Franciscan Orders (29 November); Immaculate Conception (8 December).
- 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
- Renew the promise to observe the statutes, at least privately.
- 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.
Private renewal on a qualifying occasion
Editorial estimate
About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)
The source sets no fixed duration or compulsory timed formula. This is an editorial estimate for a simple private renewal; it does not replace any required rite or the usual conditions.
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. 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.
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.