As Cardinal Mercier said : "When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere."                                                                                  From Cardinal Sarah : "In order to avoid hearing God's music, we have chosen to use all the devices of this world. But heaven's instruments will not stop playing just because some people are deaf."                                                                                              Saint John-Paul II wrote: "The fact that one can die for the faith shows that other demands of the faith can also be met."                                                 Cardinal Müller says, “For the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the decay of morality when no one knows and teaches the difference between good and evil.”                                                  St Catherine of Siena said, “We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”                                                  Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”                                                Brethren, Wake up!

EXTENSION OF NOVEMBER INDULGENCES FOR WHOLE MONTH

UNDER the fatherly gaze of the Sovereign Pontiff, and ever solicitous for the salvation of souls, the Apostolic Penitentiary has mercifully granted special indulgences in this year of the Coronavirus, when the actions of the civic authorities make difficult frequent visits to churches and cemeteries, and to avoid the gathering of large groups. The Decree was signed on 22 October, the Feast of Pope St John Paul II.

The indulgences applicable to the Holy Souls, customarily available daily to the Faithful for the week from the 1st November, are this year extended to any eight days, not necessarily continuous, throughout the month of November. 

The Indulgence for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (2nd November) may be fulfilled on any day of the month.

The usual generous concessions for the housebound apply to this provision.


For those of us who every year set out on All Saints with with such good intentions to release eight souls from Purgatory, and who reach the end of the week distracted by daily chores and disappointed at our failure, this year there really is no excuse.

The formal text of the Indulgence is printed below :


For the faithful departed 
§ 1. A plenary indulgence, applied exclusively to the souls in Purgatory, is granted to the Christian faithful who:

1° on each single day, from the first to the eighth day in November, devoutly visit a cemetery and, even if only mentally, pray for the faithful departed; [Note: one plenary indulgence for each day, if the usual conditions are met]

2° on the day of Commemoration of All Faithful Departed [November 2] (or, according to the Ordinary, on the preceding or subsequent Sunday, or on the day of the solemnity of All Saints) piously visit a church or oratory and there recite the Pater and the Credo. 

(Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, 4th edition.)

REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EIS DOMINE, ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EIS
REQUIESCANT IN PACE. AMEN.
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2020
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