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Posted: Feb 04 2006 at 8:31pm | IP Logged Quote Jen L.
I thought I would attach the news from Rome of a special plenary indulgence this month.

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Vatican, Feb. 03 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has declared a plenary indulgence for the World Day of the Sick, February 11.

The indulgence will be granted, under the usual conditions, to those who participate in the Mass for the World Day of the Sick, to be held this year in Adelaide, Australia, and to those who participate in a similar ceremony that day "at any other place decided by the ecclesiastical authorities." (The "usual conditions" for a plenary indulgence are sacramental Confession, Communion, prayer for the Pope's intentions, and the absence of attachment to sin.)

The indulgence is also granted to health-care personnel whose duties make it impossible for them to attend ceremonies for the World Day of the Sick, and to sick people who cannot attend the ceremonies, if they pray for the welfare of the sick on that day, and fulfill the ordinary conditions as soon as they are able. A partial indulgence is granted to anyone who prays for the sick on the days surrounding the World Day of the Sick, February 9 to 11.

The indulgences were announced on February 3 by the Apostolic Penitentiary, headed by Cardinal J. Francis Stafford. The Vatican announcement indicates that Pope Benedict decreed the indulgence "motivated by the ardent wish that the illnesses and pains of mankind, borne with resignation and offered to the Eternal Father, ... may bring abundant spiritual fruits."



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