Pope grants Plenary Indulgence
Vatican City (AsiaNews) The Pope has granted the plenary indulgence for the Year of the Eucharist to all the faithful who attend a mass or take part in acts of worship to the Most Holy Sacrament or other similar acts of devotion such as a procession.
The indulgence as laid out in a decree from the Apostolic Penitentiary signed by Cardinal James Francis Stafford, will apply under the usual conditions, that is if the faithful will have done sacramental confession, received the Eucharistic communion and prayed in keeping with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff
The indulgence, which is the removal of the reproach but not the sin, is also granted to those faithful who, "through illness or other just cause", must stay in "their own homes if they have the intention of observing the three usual conditions as soon as possible", they make the visit spiritually and with the heart's desire, and recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a pious invocation to Jesus in the Sacrament."
"If they are unable to do even this, they will receive a Plenary Indulgence if they unite themselves with interior desire to those who practice the normal conditions laid down for Indulgences, and offer the merciful God the illnesses and discomforts of their lives."
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