Even while we prepare for the beginning of the Year for Priests, this is still the year of St. Paul.
In your diocese your bishops may have designated churches or shrines where you can gain the Pauline Year indulgence.
Don’t forget to use this opportunity while it lasts.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…” on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
The Basillica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, CT has been designated as a place to recieve this indulgence. It is also has a TLM every Sunday night at 6pm. During the week, the Sacrament of Reconcilliation is available to the faithful for many hours of the day, as is several Masses every day. It is truly a treasure and great blessing for the faithful in this part of Connecticut.
I received the indulgence for the year of St. Paul at Westminster Cathedral, London in February (I think it was February). I was up in London visiting a friend and needed to go to confession. The priest in the confessional told me about the indulgence. He also told me that I would need to receive communion there within a week to receive the indulgence and so as there was Mass a few minutes after confessions ended I went to Mass right after. A most fortunate occasion.
Our Lady of Czestochowa church in Turner’s Falls (Western MA) is one such church.
Our Lady of Cz?stochowa Church has been named a Pilgrimage site where all Catholics can receive the Jubilee Indulgence for the Year of St. Paul. Pope Benedict XVI declared the Jubilee Year in honor of the 2000th Anniversary of the birth of St. Paul. The year runs through July 29, 2009.
Catholics who visit our parish church, carry out an act of devotion in honor of St. Paul, and fulfill the usual conditions required for obtaining an indulgence will be able to gain a Plenary Indulgence once a day for themselves or for a soul in Purgatory. (The conditions for obtaining an indulgence are: reception of confession (traditionally 8 days) prior to or following the devotional act; reception of Holy Communion; prayer for the Holy Father’s intentions and a sincere effort to eliminate all attachment to sin.) Please note that we have a statue of St. Paul on our altar to your left of the icon of Our Lady of Cz?stochowa and also know that there are prayers available to St. Paul attached to the kneeler in front of the altar.
Our Lady of Czestochowa
MOUNT AIRY – Holy Angels Church, 1208 North Main Street, zip 27030:
Special Mass celebrating the conclusion of the Pauline Year, Monday, 29 June 2009, 630 pm, The Solemnity of Peter and Paul, Missa Cantata.
Phone (336) 786-8147
hac_mta@yahoo.com
Diocese of Charlotte (Fr Eric Kowalski)
In order to gain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must “take part devoutly in a sacred function or in a pious public exercise in honour of the Apostle to the Gentiles” (si sacrae functioni vel pio exercitio in honorem Apostoli Gentium publice peractis devote interfuerint).
I presume that the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2001), n. 7, and Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 13, provide useful guidelines for what pious exercises are and are not. They are not sacred liturgy, but, presumably for purposes of gaining a plenary indulgence, they must be “celebrated according to lawfully approved customs or books.”
What are the bare minimum requirements for a pious exercise that is publicly carried out? Can any two lay faithful accomplish this? Would reciting the collect of the solemnity of the Conversion of St. Paul or of Saints Peter and Paul suffice?
And regarding sacred functions, if a layman by himself prays an hour of the Office of the Conversion of St. Paul as a votive office, is this a sacred function publicly carried out?