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Plenary Indulgence Opportunity
An indulgence is either plenary or partial, that is, it frees a person from all or from some of the temporal punishment due to sins.
A plenary indulgence is granted the Christian faithful who devoutly make a visit to a parish church on the feast day of its patron saint.
About Indulgences
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The requirements for gaining a plenary indulgence are the performance of the indulgenced work and fulfillment of three conditions: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Eucharistic communion, and prayer for the pope’s intentions.
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The condition requiring prayer for the pope’s intentions is satisfied by reciting once the Our Father and Hail Mary for his intentions; nevertheless all the faithful have the option of reciting any other prayer suited to their own piety and devotion.
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To gain an indulgence attached to a particular day any required visit to a church or oratory may be made from noon of the day proceeding until midnight at the end of the assigned day. A devout visit includes the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer & the Creed.
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A plenary indulgence may be gained only once on any day.
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No one gaining an indulgence may apply it to other living persons, however, both partial and plenary indulgences can always be applied to the dead as suffrages.
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To be capable of gaining indulgences a person must be baptized, not excommunicated, and in the state of grace at least at the time the prescribed works are completed.
This information was taken from the website of St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church in Zionsville, IN