{"id":24623,"date":"2009-05-12T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/indulgence-given-for-the-year-of-the-priest\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T22:40:16","slug":"indulgence-given-for-the-year-of-the-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/indulgence-given-for-the-year-of-the-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indulgence given for the Year of the Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Holy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, James
\nCardinal Stafford, the Major Apostolic Penitentiary<\/a> <\/span><\/a>(or visit this link<\/a>) announced that during the Year for Priests, June 19, 2009 –
\nJune 19, 2010, the Pope Benedict will grant plenary indulgences to priests and
\nthe faithful.<\/span><\/p>\n

The year will
\nbegin on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, “a day of priestly
\nsanctification,” when the Holy Father “will celebrate Vespers before relics” of
\nSaint John Mary Vianney, patron saint of priests.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years
\nwe’ve been blessed with many favors granted through the pious work of Pope
\nBenedict. I, for one, am grateful to receive the Pope’s solicitude for my
\ndestiny, for my soul. Why am I happy? I am happy about this because I happen to
\nthink the Pope is a man who enjoys a deep communion with the Lord and he is
\nguided by the Holy Spirit. His spiritual paternity is one that connects with my
\ndesires to be a man prayer grounded in my desires for communion with God and
\nneighbor. I don’t want to be controlled by sin; I don’t want to be a sinner all
\nmy life; I don’t want to be ungrateful for the gifts I’ve received from the
\nLord: life, parents and family, friends and colleagues, humor and intellect,
\ndesire and faith, etc. Life is not easy. Christian living is even tougher some
\ndays and I know what I am capable of and what I am not. Two favorite scripture
\npassages that focus my attention in daily living are: “O God, be merciful to me
\na sinner” and “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.”<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

What is
\ndistressing about some of the criticism about indulgences is the ignorance of intelligent
\nCatholics. There is a group of people who lack understanding of a sense of
\ngrace and mediation of the Church for our salvation are highly skeptical about
\nthe resurgence of talk on indulgences. You ask what is an indulgence and why
\nare we speaking about indulgences again. In short, the point of an indulgence is that it “intends as its primary aim to stimulate the faithful in their fervor of charity, and thereby in the worthy reception of the Sacraments and the carrying out of the works of mercy and penance.” More information can be gained by
\nreading the article at this link<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The means to
\nobtain the indulgence, this favor, are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) All truly
\npenitent priests who, on any day, devotedly pray Lauds or Vespers before the
\nBlessed Sacrament exposed to public adoration or in the tabernacle, and …
\noffer themselves with a ready and generous heart for the celebration of the
\nSacraments, especially the Sacrament of Penance, will be granted a Plenary
\nIndulgence, which they can also apply to their deceased confreres, if in
\naccordance with current norms they take Sacramental Confession and the
\nEucharist and pray in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff.
\nPriests are furthermore granted a Partial Indulgence, also applicable to
\ndeceased confreres, every time they devotedly recite the prayers duly approved
\nto lead a saintly life and to carry out the duties entrusted to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) All truly
\npenitent Christian faithful who, in church or oratory, devotedly attend Holy
\nMass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ, supreme and eternal Priest, for the
\npriests of the Church, or perform any good work to sanctify and mold them to
\nHis Heart, are granted a Plenary Indulgence, on the condition that they have
\nexpiated their sins through Sacramental Confession and prayed in accordance
\nwith the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. This may be done on the opening and
\nclosing days of the Year of Priests, on the 150th anniversary of the death of
\nSaint John Mary Vianney, on the first Thursday of the month, or on any other
\nday established by the ordinaries of particular places for the good of the
\nfaithful.<\/span><\/p>\n

The elderly, the
\nsick and all those who for any legitimate reason are unable to leave their
\nhomes, may still obtain a plenary indulgence if, with the soul completely
\nremoved from attachment to any form of sin and with the intention of observing,
\nas soon as they can, the usual three conditions, “on the days concerned,
\nthey pray for the sanctification of priests and offer their sickness and
\nsuffering to God through Mary, Queen of the Apostles.”<\/span><\/p>\n

A partial indulgence will be offered to the faithful each time they pray five “Our Father,” “Hail Mary,” and “Glory Be,” or any other duly approved prayer “in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to ask that priests maintain purity and sanctity of life.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, James Cardinal Stafford, the Major Apostolic Penitentiary (or visit this link) announced that during the Year for Priests, June 19, 2009 – June 19, 2010, the Pope Benedict will grant plenary indulgences to priests and the faithful. The year will begin on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, “a day of priestly sanctification,” … Continue reading Indulgence given for the Year of the Priest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,67],"tags":[2089,2090,32104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}