05/12/2016
Three Ways to Obtain Plenary
Indulgence During 100th
Anniversary of Fatima
Announced on December 1, 2016: Pope Francis
grants three opportunities to receive a plenary
indulgence throughout the Jubilee Year of the
Fatima Centennial, which recently began on the
First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, 2016, and ends
next year on Nov. 26, 2017.
André Pereira, rector of the Fatima Shrine in
Portugal, outlined the three ways of obtaining the
indulgence, detailed in a statement on the shrine’s
website.
To obtain the plenary indulgence , the faithful must
also fulfill the three ordinary conditions: Go to
Confession and Communion, be interiorly detached
from sin, and pray for the intentions of the Holy
Father. (The latter means to pray for the Pope to
lead the Church as God wills.)
1. Pilgrimage to the shrine
The first way to gain the plenary indulgence is for
“the faithful to make a pilgrimage to the Fatima
Shrine in Portugal and participate in a celebration
or prayer dedicated to the Virgin.”
In addition, the faithful must pray the Our Father ,
recite the Apostles' Creed and invoke Our Lady of
Fatima (i.e., "Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us" or
"Virgin of Fatima, pray for us," etc.).
2. Prayer before any statue of Our Lady of Fatima
on the 13th of the Month
The second way applies to “the pious faithful who
visit with devotion a statue of Our Lady of Fatima
solemnly exposed for public veneration in any
church, oratory or proper place during the days of
the anniversary of the apparitions, the 13th of each
month from May to October (2017), and there
devoutly participate in some celebration or prayer
in honor of the Virgin Mary.”
The rector of the Fatima Shrine explained that the
visit to the statue of the Virgin “does not
necessarily have to be only at Fatima or exclusively
in Portugal,” but can be done anywhere in the
world.
Additionally, all those seeking an indulgence must
also pray an Our Father, recite the Apostle’s Creed
and invoke Our Lady of Fatima (i.e., “Our Lady of
Fatima,
