Before we have barely got started on our Indulgences for our deceased friends and relations, notwithstanding the generosity of the Holy See in extending this task to the whole month of November, the Devil has enlisted the British Government to frustrate our efforts. See the last post HERE.
Fear not!
The Special Conditions announced by the Holy Father in March (SEE HERE) continue to apply, and we may thus gain the Holy Souls Indulgences (on 8 separate days) under these conditions of a pious act done at home (Holy Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Spiritual reading for half-an-hour, Litany, etc) with prayer for the Pope's intentions, the intention to unite ourselves to the will of the Church at the altar, but in the absence of attendance at Mass and Holy Communion, and of immediate Confession, but with a firm purpose to receive both these Sacraments at the earliest opportunity.
If we are able to visit a church for private prayer we should try to do so. Confessions are also available under various conditions in many parishes.
The text of the Apostolic Decree may be found HERE.
Thus there is no justification to ignore the obtaining of these glorious Indulgences. Paradoxically it has never been easier, and probably never will be again. So, please, set to work in the greatest act of charity humanly possible, the releasing of your family, or indeed total strangers, from Purgatory to the Eternal Bliss of Heaven. They are crying out to us for our prayers.
For the of you who are isolating, please remember our very popular post, Spiritual Communion in Self-Isolation, HERE.
Pray also for our Bishops, that they may, within the great tradition of our 900 year-old history, learn the joy of a good holy fight.
ANIMAE EORUM, ET ANIMAE OMNIUM FIDELIUM DEFUNCTORUM, PER MISERICORDIAM DEI REQUIESCANT IN PACE. AMEN.
(Painting, The Holy Souls in Purgatory, Antonio María Esquivel, 1850)
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