plenary indulgence

[padre]

I am trying to find out the condition of receiving communion for a plenary indulgence is to be received on the day the indulgence is sort are like the sacrament of penance three or for days before or after the indulgence is sought padre

 

[asia53]

This will answer your question. It was in the Denver Catholic Register a couple of years ago.

Conditions for Indulgences

Other than on special occasions, to gain a plenary indulgence, which is possible once a day, you must:

1. Be baptized and in a state of grace

1. Go to sacramental confession several days (up to 20) before or after the work. (One sacramental confession now suffices for gaining several plenary indulgences.)

1. Receive Communion on each day the indulgence is sought.

1. Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father. An Our Father and Hail Mary satisfy this requirement. (Receive Communion and pray for the Intentions of the Pope on the same day the work is performed.)

1. Perform one of these works/acts to which the indulgence is attached:
   A. adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for at least half and hour,
   B. devout reading of the Scriptures for at least half an hour,
   C. pious exercise of the Way of the Cross (praying in church or where properly erected),
   D. recitation of the Rosary as a family or in a church before the Blessed Sacrament or part of the public oratory or group, religious community or pious association.
2. All attachment to sin, even to venial sin, must be absent. Otherwise the indulgence becomes partial, not plenary.

1. Have at least a general intention. You can’t receive an indulgence unintentionally
   or by accident.

Partial indulgences have fewer norms. The Enchiridion explains “general grants” and specific prayers and devotional use of certain objects of piety properly blessed by any priest that carry partial indulgences.

  			Enchiridion of Indulgences