Rome, Our Lady of Divine Love: feast days, annual visit or group pilgrimage

At the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love, take part devoutly in a sacred service or recite the Our Father and Creed on a qualifying occasion.

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Time required Length of the sacred service, or a devout visit with the Our Father and Creed

When: The five named solemnities; once a year on a freely chosen day; or every group pilgrimage for devotion
Where: Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love (Madonna del Divino Amore), Rome, Italy
Who: All eligible faithful
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome on Pentecost, the Immaculate Conception, Mary Mother of God, the Annunciation, or the Assumption; alternatively, visit once a year on a day freely chosen, or whenever taking part in a group pilgrimage for devotion.
There participate devoutly in a sacred service, or at least recite the Our Father and a profession of faith.
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.

Sacred service on a feast day or annual chosen day

Complete the prescribed event

Length of the sacred service

No fixed minute minimum is prescribed. The decree requires devout participation in the service.

Timing sources

Feast-day or annual chosen-day visit with prayers

Editorial estimate

About 2–5 minutes

No fixed minute minimum is prescribed. The range is an editorial estimate for a devout visit and spoken Our Father and Creed on a named feast or the personally chosen annual day.

Timing sources

Group pilgrimage for devotion

Duration varies

Duration of the group pilgrimage, including the sacred service or prayers

No fixed minute minimum is prescribed. The required group pilgrimage remains part of the whole work, together with the sacred service or Our Father and Creed.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work. Required pilgrimage activity remains included.
Sacramental confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions under the ordinary conditions

Stated start: 25 March 1991

Occasion and source notes

Observe any lawful transfer in the shrine’s proper calendar. Group pilgrimages and the personal annual day are not automatically dated. For the individually dated church visit, Norm 14 permits the visit from noon on the preceding day until midnight ending the observance. Follow the local calendar and access hours. The required pilgrimage, prayers, eligibility and frequency limits remain in force; attending an actual rite is still necessary if that is the chosen alternative.

The complete 1991 decree expressly permits participation in a sacred service as an alternative to reciting the Our Father and Creed. Its pilgrimage route specifies a group; the abbreviated visitor page omits that qualifier.

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.