Missed 2 days of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, can I still receive plenary indulgence?

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This upcoming Sunday is Divine Mercy Sunday and one of the list items for preparation is to recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet beginning on Good Friday, for 9 days. Unfortunately, I didn’t read the church bulletin well enough until today, and because I am still growing in my Catholic faith, I did not realize this. What I am asking is that because I have missed two days, does this nullify the plenary indulgence (which I’m not certain if it is just my specific church that receives the P.I. or the CC in general this weekend), and no longer be able to receive complete pardon the soul, forgiveness of all sins, and forgiveness of all punishment due, as long as I were to do the rest of the preparation? Can I make up the two missed recitations? Or is it simply to be in a state of mind for the plenary indulgence and thus seven days is still fine?

Thank you.
 
The Novena itself, while wonderful and certainly a great way to beg for God’s graces, as far as I know, does not impact the ability of a person to acquire a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday.

Here are some basic requirements:
II. The specific conditions for this Indulgence
On Divine Mercy Sunday
  • in any church or chapel, in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin, take part in the prayers and devotions held in honour of Divine Mercy
  • or, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed or reserved in the tabernacle, recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you!")
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You can find more here: ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/summary.htm
 
I don’t want to bash what you wrote above InNomineDomini, but those are not the requirements for he Divine Mercy Sunday indulgence. The only requirements are to go to Confession on or right before the Subday and then receive Jesus worthily and well in Holy Communion on the Sunday.

May God bless you all abundantly and forever! 🙂
 
OK, there are 3 things I know of related to D.M. Sunday.

1.The Novena which also is connected to a P.I.)
  1. The Plenary Indulgence relating to D.M. revelations.
  2. The Divine Mercy Promise (This is similar to the Indulgence but has a few differences and I’m not sure it has official approval from the C.D.F.)
Someone else can comment further, I’m too tired. 😛
 
The Novena is beautiful and very pleasing to Jesus to say…whenever.

I was thinking it was connected to some kind of indulgence but I don’t see anything about it on my little Novena brochure that are so common at many Catholic Churches.

Indulgences are wonderful but it would be even better if we will do things purely for the Love of God to please Jesus, too. (just a reminder)
 
JamalChristophr said:
The Novena is beautiful and very pleasing to Jesus to say…whenever.

I was thinking it was connected to some kind of indulgence but I don’t see anything about it on my little Novena brochure that are so common at many Catholic Churches.

Indulgences are wonderful but it would be even better if we will do things purely for the Love of God to please Jesus, too. (just a reminder)
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True, very true, that we should be do such things out of sheer love, however, what a wonderful gift we are offered in total forgiveness. I cannot imagine why someone would not want to refuse such a magnificent gift!!!

Thanks to everyone who has responded.

One last question, since I am still learning so much about the Catholic faith. Is this offered to specific Catholic Churches or is it global? The bulletin was written in such a way that made it sound like our church had been chosen with this extraordinary opportunity.
 
oldgraymare2 said:
Here is a link from the Marian’s website, that explains Mercy Sunday’s special graces, and plenary indulgences:

thedivinemercy.org/news/story.php?NID=2485

It is not necessary to do a Novena.
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This link from the Marians has it right: the “indulgence” I was referring to in my last post was not the indulgence everyone else is talking about. Rather, I was referring to the special Promise given directly by Our Lord Jesus to Saint Faustina, for which you have to simply go to Confession and receive Jesus in Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday, placing your entire trust in the mercy of God.

The actual indulgence seems to be something else, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II a while back.

To answer your second question: no, these indulgences are not for specific parish communities, but for the entire Catholic Church.

May God bless you all this Easter season and always! 🙂
 
JoeFreedom said:
True, very true, that we should be do such things out of sheer love, however, what a wonderful gift we are offered in total forgiveness. I cannot imagine why someone would not want to refuse such a magnificent gift!!!

Thanks to everyone who has responded.

One last question, since I am still learning so much about the Catholic faith. Is this offered to specific Catholic Churches or is it global? The bulletin was written in such a way that made it sound like our church had been chosen with this extraordinary opportunity.
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P.A’s are indeed a great thing. However, to receive a plenary in the sense that is full remission of temporal punishment, one can have no attachment to sin. How that is interpreted is debatable.
 
JoeFreedom said:
True, very true, that we should be do such things out of sheer love, however, what a wonderful gift we are offered in total forgiveness. I cannot imagine why someone would not want to refuse such a magnificent gift!!!

Thanks to everyone who has responded.

One last question, since I am still learning so much about the Catholic faith. Is this offered to specific Catholic Churches or is it global? The bulletin was written in such a way that made it sound like our church had been chosen with this extraordinary opportunity.
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P.I’s are indeed a great thing. However, the final condition is that you must be free from all attachment to sin, including venial sin.
 
Richard_White said:
The actual indulgence seems to be something else, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II a while back.
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That is the question at the heart of the OP’s opening post: what are the requirements for the plenary indulgence associated with Divine Mercy Sunday? Is praying the Novena one of them?

There are not multiple plenary indulgences associated with Divine Mercy Sunday, and so I’m not sure exactly what else you were referencing.

EDIT: I noticed again your post where you mentioned the promise given my Our Lord to St. Faustina.
 
InNomineDomini said:
That is the question at the heart of the OP’s opening post: what are the requirements for the plenary indulgence associated with Divine Mercy Sunday? Is praying the Novena one of them?

There are not multiple plenary indulgences associated with Divine Mercy Sunday, and so I’m not sure exactly what else you were referencing.
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The Divine Mercy Promise is spoken of in the diary, but I don’t think it is actually approved by the CDF or whatever body in the Vatican that attends to such matters.
 
Here is some information on the Divine Mercy Promise:

feastofmercy.net/DMM_pg12.pdf

However, I am unsure of it has approval from Vatican Theologians and/or CDF.

I am still not satisfied with even with this next link I post because as I remember it from the diary, it seems not fully accurate. I will try and return to this later today or tomorrow. Feel free to comment. The promise has not yet received full church approval I must emphasize once more.

thedivinemercy.org/news/story.php?NID=2485
 
JamalChristophr said:
Here is some information on the Divine Mercy Promise:

feastofmercy.net/DMM_pg12.pdf

However, I am unsure of it has approval from Vatican Theologians and/or CDF.

I am still not satisfied with even with this next link I post because as I remember it from the diary, it seems not fully accurate. I will try and return to this later today or tomorrow. Feel free to comment. The promise has not yet received full church approval I must emphasize once more.

thedivinemercy.org/news/story.php?NID=2485
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I have the official Divine Mercy Message and Devotion booklet with Jesus’ actual words to Saint Faustina as recorded in her diary, and it attests that if you go to Communion and Confession on Divine Mercy Sunday, you can receive full forgiveness of sin and punishment from God.

But, in regard to the official indulgence from the Church, the requirements are what InNomineDomini originally copied and pasted into his first post.

May God bless you all! 🙂
 
So I think I have this straight:
  • This is not specifically sanctioned by the CC (does not have Vatican approval) but is no matter a wonderful opportunity.
  • It is not specific to my church but available to all.
  • The prayers (Novena) are not required to be said all day, but is preferred, as preparation.
  • As long as my confession is valid (truly sorry for all sins, all sins in examined conscious confessed, and I promise to avoid sin, etc.) the plenary indulgence is true.
  • Take communion on said Sunday and participate in the Divine Mercy service.
Now I need to find out if the communion will be part of the Divine Mercy service that afternoon (there is a separate 4pm Sunday mass for this, preceded by confessions at 2pm and veneration at 3pm), because if there is no communion at this service, I will attend the morning service for it, although, now that I think about it, this afternoon service probably does not fulfill Sunday obligation, so I think I will simply attend both.
 
JoeFreedom said:
So I think I have this straight:
  • This is not specifically sanctioned by the CC (does not have Vatican approval) but is no matter a wonderful opportunity.
  • It is not specific to my church but available to all.
  • The prayers (Novena) are not required to be said all day, but is preferred, as preparation.
  • As long as my confession is valid (truly sorry for all sins, all sins in examined conscious confessed, and I promise to avoid sin, etc.) the plenary indulgence is true.
  • Take communion on said Sunday and participate in the Divine Mercy service.
Now I need to find out if the communion will be part of the Divine Mercy service that afternoon (there is a separate 4pm Sunday mass for this, preceded by confessions at 2pm and veneration at 3pm), because if there is no communion at this service, I will attend the morning service for it, although, now that I think about it, this afternoon service probably does not fulfill Sunday obligation, so I think I will simply attend both.
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The Novena can be said in 9 months, 9 days, or 9 hours. All Masses on Divine Mercy Sunday count towards the Sunday obligation, whether they are specified for Divine Mercy Sunday or not.
 
JoeFreedom said:
So I think I have this straight:
  • This is not specifically sanctioned by the CC (does not have Vatican approval) but is no matter a wonderful opportunity.
  • It is not specific to my church but available to all.
  • The prayers (Novena) are not required to be said all day, but is preferred, as preparation.
  • As long as my confession is valid (truly sorry for all sins, all sins in examined conscious confessed, and I promise to avoid sin, etc.) the plenary indulgence is true.
  • Take communion on said Sunday and participate in the Divine Mercy service.
Now I need to find out if the communion will be part of the Divine Mercy service that afternoon (there is a separate 4pm Sunday mass for this, preceded by confessions at 2pm and veneration at 3pm), because if there is no communion at this service, I will attend the morning service for it, although, now that I think about it, this afternoon service probably does not fulfill Sunday obligation, so I think I will simply attend both.
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Yes, this is all correct!

There IS also an official indulgence sanctioned by the Vatican, whose requirements are those listed in InNomineDomini’s post (POST #2). I never really knew about this one before, but it does exist. So, you can do that one, too, if you would like.

But, I like the Promise of Our Lord Jesus which is the one I spoke of and the one that you are speaking of in this, your last post that I have quoted here.

And as long as it is a Mass, then there will be Holy Communion.

May God bless you as you fly to His Mercy! May the Merciful Heart of Jesus keep you safe and bless you with many graces forever! 🙂
 
Richard_White said:
I have the official Divine Mercy Message and Devotion booklet with Jesus’ actual words to Saint Faustina as recorded in her diary, and it attests that if you go to Communion and Confession on Divine Mercy Sunday, you can receive full forgiveness of sin and punishment from God.

But, in regard to the official indulgence from the Church, the requirements are what InNomineDomini originally copied and pasted into his first post.

May God bless you all! 🙂
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Are you sure it specifically says confession on that Sunday in the diary…I think I heard the Marians say within 8 days before or after, then they might have stretched it even farther but I think 8 days sounds better. I’d go by what’s in the diary.
 
JamalChristophr said:
Are you sure it specifically says confession on that Sunday in the diary…I think I heard the Marians say within 8 days before or after, then they might have stretched it even farther but I think 8 days sounds better. I’d go by what’s in the diary.
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This is actually something I’ve been thinking about. In the words of Jesus from Saint Faistina’s diary, Jesus says both Confession and Reception of Him in Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday. But, the Marians themselves say that one should go to Confession preferably before the Feast of Divine Mercy. So…

May God bless you abundantly this Easter season and always! 🙂
 
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