Year of Mercy Plenary Indulgence

[Freeway_Joe]

My wonderful RCIA instructor told me that when we go to a designated Open Door Church for Holy Communion during this year of Mercy, we can offer up groups of souls in Purgatory for the Plenary Indulgence. My question is= how many deceased people can we include in a group? and how do I word it in my prayer? Thanks

 

[TheDoctor]

My understanding is that indulgences are for people, not groups. You can offer an indulgence for a person or for the “person in purgatory who most needs it” but I have never heard of being able to offer it for groups.

Perhaps it is special for the year of mercy?

 

[CJsmommy]

From what I understand it’s one soul - either yours, or one in purgatory - per indulgence.

 

[Freeway_Joe]

Many thanks for your clarification. It sounds reasonable

 

[peter26]

Don’t forget all the conditions of the Year of Mercy indulgence. In addition to passing through the Holy Door and receiving Communion, you must pray for the Pope’s intentions, recite the Creed, reflect on God’s mercy and go to confession (within 20 days either side of the day you pass through the door).

 

[ccmcmg]

Don’t forget all the conditions of the Year of Mercy indulgence. In addition to passing through the Holy Door and receiving Communion, you must pray for the Pope’s intentions, recite the Creed, reflect on God’s mercy and go to confession (within 20 days either side of the day you pass through the door).

The usual conditions for a plenary indulgence apply:
thedivinemercy.org/jubilee/thebasics/indulgence.php

catholicnewsagency.com/blog/all-of-your-burning-questions-on-holy-years-and-doors-answered/

 

[Generic_Name]

Don’t forget all the conditions of the Year of Mercy indulgence. In addition to passing through the Holy Door and receiving Communion, you must pray for the Pope’s intentions, recite the Creed, reflect on God’s mercy and go to confession (within 20 days either side of the day you pass through the door).

And complete detachment from all sin, even venial. There are differing opinions on what exactly that means. However, even if the plenary indulgence is not achieved, one still receives a partial indulgence. Exactly how partial is unknown, and even a partial indulgence is a big help either to you or whomever you assign your indulgence.

 

[Vico]

Don’t forget all the conditions of the Year of Mercy indulgence. In addition to passing through the Holy Door and receiving Communion, you must pray for the Pope’s intentions, recite the Creed, reflect on God’s mercy and go to confession (within 20 days either side of the day you pass through the door).

And if there is not complete detachment from sin, even venial sin, then it will still be a partial indulgence. Another thing to remember is that for the plenary indulgence, the prayer must be vocal prayer (per the norms for indulgences), it could be a whisper (except for the deaf or mute) rather than mental prayer; vocal prayer is a more perfect form of prayer.

CatechismI. VOCAL PRAYER
2700 Through his Word, God speaks to man. By words, mental or vocal, our prayer takes flesh. Yet it is most important that the heart should be present to him to whom we are speaking in prayer: "Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of words, but on the fervor of our souls."2
2701 Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master’s silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani.3
2702 The need to involve the senses in interior prayer corresponds to a requirement of our human nature. We are body and spirit, and we experience the need to translate our feelings externally. We must pray with our whole being to give all power possible to our supplication.
2703 This need also corresponds to a divine requirement. God seeks worshippers in Spirit and in Truth, and consequently living prayer that rises from the depths of the soul. He also wants the external expression that associates the body with interior prayer, for it renders him that perfect homage which is his due.
2704 Because it is external and so thoroughly human, vocal prayer is the form of prayer most readily accessible to groups. Even interior prayer, however, cannot neglect vocal prayer. Prayer is internalized to the extent that we become aware of him "to whom we speak;"4 Thus vocal prayer becomes an initial form of contemplative prayer.