Bishop Anthony Randazzo, shrine decree announced 24 April 2022
Somersby: visit Saint Faustina’s shrine on her feast
Devoutly visit the diocesan Shrine of Saint Faustina Kowalska at the Divine Retreat Centre, Somersby, on her feast day, 5 October.
Time required No fixed duration for the devout visit.
- When
- Feast of Saint Faustina Kowalska, 5 October each year
- Where
- Diocesan Shrine of Saint Faustina Kowalska, Divine Retreat Centre, 160 Hensons Road, Somersby, New South Wales, Australia
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Devoutly visit the diocesan Shrine of Saint Faustina Kowalska at the Divine Retreat Centre, Somersby, on her feast day, 5 October.
The work and its conditions
The general requirements include at least a general intention, the state of grace by the completion of the work, and a contrite heart. Complete the work as prescribed.
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.
Prescribed visit
Duration varies
No fixed duration; time spent in the prescribed visit
The source does not prescribe a numerical duration or fixed prayer text.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Stated start
- 24 April 2022
Occasion and source notes
Follow the shrine’s proper liturgical calendar and any lawful transfer. The published grant names the diocesan shrine at the retreat centre. The centre describes a relic chapel, but the available grant documents do not establish the precise church or oratory scope needed to project a preceding-noon opening under Norm 14. This calendar therefore lists the feast day itself; follow the shrine’s competent directions for the actual place and visiting hours.
The diocesan publication describes an annual feast-day visit concession. The shrine’s own published directions describe a partial indulgence for those who venerate Saint Faustina’s relics on her feast day. These source descriptions are distinguished here; the original signed decree has not been inspected. Neither published description specifies a fixed prayer text or minute minimum. The listed start is the public establishment and announcement date.
Source and exact reference
- Diocese of Broken Bay — Vox Populi, 28 April 2022Page 1; Bishop Randazzo’s decree grants a partial indulgence for annual 5 October shrine visits
- Divine Retreat Centre Somersby — annual Feast of Saint FaustinaShrine directions describe annual 5 October veneration of the relic and the partial indulgence
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth edition (1999)Norms 13–14; preceding-noon window for an indulgence attached to a day and requiring a church/oratory visit, including partial indulgences
- Divine Retreat Centre Somersby — chapel and shrine descriptionsSeparate Eucharistic Chapel and Saint Faustina Shrine sections; shrine photograph labelled a chapel, without a published determination of the grant’s church/oratory scope
- Code of Canon Law — sacred placesCanons 1214, 1223 and 1230: church, oratory and shrine are distinct categories; a shrine may be a church or another sacred place
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.