Opus Dei: annual feasts for specified members and associates

Eligible members and Catholic cooperators have seven listed feast days. The 2014 extension also expressly covers ecclesiastical assistants and priests holding a Letter of Fraternity for its two added feasts.

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Time required Commitment renewal: about 1–5 minutes (editorial estimate).

When: 14 February; St Joseph (19 March); Sts Peter and Paul (29 June); Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 September); Archangels (29 September); Guardian Angels (2 October); St John (27 December).
Where: No special location is prescribed by this membership grant.
Who: Faithful of Opus Dei and Catholic cooperators for the seven listed feasts. Ecclesiastical assistants and priests holding a Letter of Fraternity are also expressly included for 14 February and Holy Guardian Angels (2 October) by the 2014 decree; this record does not extend their verified entitlement to the other five feasts.
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Members renew their commitments; cooperators renew their decision to cooperate.
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.

Qualifying feast: renewal of the appropriate commitment

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.

Timing sources

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.