Rosary Confraternity feast days

Members have additional opportunities on seven annual celebrations.

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Time required No separate timed exercise is prescribed for the feast.

When: Christmas; Easter; Presentation of the Lord (2 February); Annunciation (25 March); Assumption (15 August); Our Lady of the Rosary (7 October); Immaculate Conception (8 December). Follow lawful transfers.
Where: No special location is prescribed by this membership grant.
Who: Registered Rosary Confraternity members
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Observe the Confraternity commitment to fifteen decades each week, including the intentions of fellow members.
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 membership feast

Duration varies

No fixed duration is prescribed

The source prescribes no separate timed exercise for this occasion. Follow all membership and usual plenary conditions; their practical time varies.

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.
The continuing obligation of fifteen decades each week; this is not a requirement to pray all fifteen on the indulgence day.

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.