Bishop issues notice on plenary indulgence for participation in 2024 March for Life events
January 17, 2024 at 4:03 p.m.
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., announced Jan. 17 that he had just received approval by the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See of a plenary indulgence (total remission of temporal punishment for sin) in connection with the 2024 March for Life in Washington and accompanying events Thursday, Jan.18 and Friday, Jan. 19.
The approval was sent to Bishop O’Connell by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington.
In his communication, Archbishop Gregory wrote that that those pilgrims “who participate in person, or virtually due to age, sickness or other grave reasons that prevent them from leaving their homes, but who join via TV, radio or social media in the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, January 18, 2024 will obtain a plenary indulgence. The same conditions apply for pilgrims, who will attend in-person or virtually the Mass of Celebration and Thanksgiving for Life, which will be celebrated on Friday, January 19, 2024, at The Cathedral of St. Matthew: The Apostle.”
The plenary indulgence would be available for all those Catholics who have “the disposition of detachment from any sin, with the intention of fulfilling as soon as one is able, the three customary conditions” for plenary indulgences: Sacramental Confession; Eucharistic Communion, and prayer for the intention of the Holy Father.
To read the full text describing the plenary indulgence, click HERE.
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Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., announced Jan. 17 that he had just received approval by the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See of a plenary indulgence (total remission of temporal punishment for sin) in connection with the 2024 March for Life in Washington and accompanying events Thursday, Jan.18 and Friday, Jan. 19.
The approval was sent to Bishop O’Connell by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington.
In his communication, Archbishop Gregory wrote that that those pilgrims “who participate in person, or virtually due to age, sickness or other grave reasons that prevent them from leaving their homes, but who join via TV, radio or social media in the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, January 18, 2024 will obtain a plenary indulgence. The same conditions apply for pilgrims, who will attend in-person or virtually the Mass of Celebration and Thanksgiving for Life, which will be celebrated on Friday, January 19, 2024, at The Cathedral of St. Matthew: The Apostle.”
The plenary indulgence would be available for all those Catholics who have “the disposition of detachment from any sin, with the intention of fulfilling as soon as one is able, the three customary conditions” for plenary indulgences: Sacramental Confession; Eucharistic Communion, and prayer for the intention of the Holy Father.
To read the full text describing the plenary indulgence, click HERE.