Apostolic Penitentiary, 11 June 2020, third grant
Denver Saint Catherine: spiritually united when prevented
Those justly unable to visit may make the visit spiritually in faith in Christ’s real Eucharistic presence.
Time required A spiritual prayer visit takes about 2–10 minutes; the plenary visitor route requires seven consecutive days.
- When
- During the seven-year term beginning 11 June 2020
- Where
- At home or wherever a just impediment prevents the visit to Saint Catherine of Siena, Denver
- Who
- Faithful prevented by illness or another just cause from visiting the specified Denver church
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Illness or another just cause must prevent attendance at Saint Catherine’s.
- From home or the place of impediment, make the spiritual visit in faith in Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist.
- For the partial spiritual visit, pray the Our Father and Creed and add a devout invocation to Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament.
- For the plenary visitor route, repeat the corresponding spiritual visit on seven consecutive days and fulfil its 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.
Partial: spiritual visit when impeded
Editorial estimate
About 2–10 minutes for a spiritual prayer visit
No fixed minute minimum is prescribed. This editorial estimate covers the spiritual visitor route with the Our Father, Creed and a devout Eucharistic invocation; illness or another just cause must prevent the physical visit.
Plenary: spiritual visits on seven consecutive days
Editorial estimate
About 2–10 minutes per daily spiritual visit
No fixed minute minimum per visit is prescribed. This editorial estimate covers the corresponding spiritual visitor work; repeat it on seven consecutive days and fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions.
Elapsed requirement Make the corresponding spiritual visit on seven consecutive days.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Preparation and the ordinary conditions for a plenary indulgence, unless they are themselves part of the prescribed work
- Stated start
- 11 June 2020
- Stated end
- 11 June 2027
Occasion and source notes
The impeded paragraph permits the corresponding spiritual visit under the preceding conditions. This entry presents the expressly described visitor and seven-day routes; the text does not separately identify a remote substitute for an assigned adoration turn.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.