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Pope Benedict has issued an opportunity
to get a plenary indulgence on Dec. 8th. Here's the details....
Plenary Indulgence Attainable on Dec. 8
Papal Decision for 40th Anniversary of Close of Vatican II
VATICAN CITY, NOV. 30, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is offering the
faithful a plenary indulgence on the solemnity of the Immaculate
Conception, Dec. 8, the 40th anniversary of the close of the Second
Vatican Council.
The indulgence was announced in a decree published in Latin on Tuesday,
signed by Cardinal James Stafford and Conventual Franciscan Father John
Girotti, penitentiary major and regent, respectively, of the Apostolic
Penitentiary.
The document establishes that when the Pope renders public homage to Mary
Immaculate in Rome's Piazza di Spagna, he "has the heartfelt desire that
the entire Church should join him, so that all the faithful, united in
the name of the common Mother, become ever stronger in the faith, adhere
with greater devotion to Christ, and love their brothers with more
fervent charity."
"From here -- as Vatican Council II very wisely taught -- arise works of
mercy toward the needy, observance of justice, and the defense of and
search for peace," adds the decree.
For this reason, the decree continues, the Holy Father "has kindly
granted the gift of plenary indulgence which may be obtained under the
usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion and
prayer in keeping with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff), with the
soul completely removed from attachment to any form of sin, on the
forthcoming solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, by the faithful if
they participate in a sacred function in honor of the Virgin, or at least
offer open testimony of Marian devotion before an image of Mary
Immaculate exposed for public veneration, adding the recitation of the
Our Father and of the Creed, and some invocation to the Virgin."
At home
The document concludes by recalling that faithful who "through illness or
other just cause" are unable to participate in a public ceremony or to
venerate an image of the Virgin, "may obtain a plenary indulgence in
their own homes, or wherever they may be, if, with the soul completely
removed from any form of sin, and with the intention of observing the
aforesaid conditions as soon as possible, they unite themselves in spirit
and in desire to the Supreme Pontiff's intentions in prayer to Mary
Immaculate, and recite the Our Father and the Creed."
On Dec. 8, 1965, Pope Paul VI, in closing Vatican II, dedicated great
praise to the Blessed Virgin who, as Mother of Christ, is Mother of God
and spiritual Mother of all mankind.
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