Year of Saint Pio: announced plenary occasions
Padre Pio anniversary Masses: authorization to verify
The Centre announces plenary indulgences for two anniversary Masses.
Time required The prescribed Mass, for its actual duration.
- When
- 2 May and 16 June 2027 (future occasions; authorization unverified)
- Where
- National Centre for Padre Pio, Barto, Pennsylvania, USA
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit the Centre and devoutly participate in Mass on 2 May or 16 June 2027.
- The announcement attributes the grants to the diocesan bishop, but identifies no special apostolic authorization. Ordinary episcopal faculties alone do not establish these plenary grants; verify the decree before relying on them.
- The general invitation to spiritual participation is not an announced indulgence provision for the homebound.
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.
Participate in the specified Mass
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Participate in the prescribed Mass; its actual schedule determines the duration. A fixed number of minutes does not substitute for participation. This prospective plenary grant still requires verification of apostolic authorization.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration
- Stated start
- 2 May 2027
- Stated end
- 16 June 2027
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.