Indulgences in Perpetuity

The Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See has communicated that the indulgences, which members of the Work and their relatives can gain on these dates, are granted in perpetuity. Until now, they were renewed every seven years.

Here is a translation of the decree, the original of which is in Latin:

Holy Father,

Fernando Ocáriz Braña, Prelate of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, with a grateful heart to God, respectfully explains that the indulgences granted for seven years, by mandate of Your Holiness, through the Apostolic Penitentiary with rescript N. 1105/15/1 on December 17, 2015, have been and continue to be spiritually beneficial:

I. for those who participate in the liturgical celebrations that the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei and the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross usually promote, in the triduum before the solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord and Easter, for the spiritual progress of the families of its faithful and its associates;

II. for the parents, brothers, and sisters of the faithful of the Prelature and the associates of the Priestly Society, as well as for the spouses, sons, and daughters of the supernumerary faithful who participate in a sacred function on the feast day of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

So that the spiritual benefits derived from them may continue in the future, the Reverend petitioner requests Your Holiness to extend the already granted grace.

For God, etc.

On December 16, 2022, the Apostolic Penitentiary, by virtue of the powers attributed to it by mandate of the Holy Father Francis, receiving with pleasure the presented supplications, extends in perpetuity the implored gift. Notwithstanding any contrary disposition.

 Image of the decree

Original in Latin:

Prot. N. 1118/22/I

Beatissime Pater

Ferdinandus Ocáriz Braña, Praelaturae personalis Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei Praelatus, grato erga Deum animo motus, reverenter exponit indulgentias, de mandato Sanctitatis Tuae a Paenitentia Apostolica per Rescriptum N. 1105/15/1, die 17 decembris 2015 ad septennium concessas, valde spiritaliter profuisse et prodesse:

I. participantibus celebrationes liturgicas quas, triduo ante sollemmitatem Nativitatis Domini et Paschatis, Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei necnon Societas Sacerdotalis Sanctae Crucis, in spiritalem familiarum suorum fidelium atque sodalium profectum, promovere solent;

II. parentibus, fratribus et sororibus fidelium praelature et sodalium Societatis Sacerdotalis necnon coniugibus, filiis et filiabus fidelium supernumerariorum qui, die festo Sanctae familiae Iesu, Mariae, Ioseph, sacrae functioni adfuerint.

Quo autem spiritalia bona inde manantia in posterum etiam redundent, Rev.dus Orator petit a Sanctitate Tua ut iam concessa gratia prorogetur.

Ex Deus, etc.

Die 16 Decembris 2022

Paenitentiaria Apostolica, vi facultatum sibi de Sanctissimi Patris Francisci mandato tributarum, oblatas libenter preces excipiens imploratum donum in perpetuum prorogat.

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