December 30 - Traditional Indulgence of the day!

We are evaluating old indulgences that have been approve on todays date of: 

December

30

List of Traditional materials we will be looking at today, and the current/withstanding grants that they satisfy (directly or indirectly).

• 39. My God, I love Thee

  • partial indulgence… General Grant 1

• 691. I confess to Almighty God

  • partial indulgence… Grant 9

• 705. Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - O Most Sacred Heart

  • plenary/partial indulgence… Grant 1

NOTE:

• Every prayer may be eligible for a partial indulgence, if applied correctly, under Grant 15.

• Every invocation may be eligible for a partial indulgence, if applied correctly, under ‘General Grant ’ 1 

• Every practice may be eligible for a partial indulgence, if it is applied correctly, under one of the ‘General Grant’s 2, 3, or 4

• Some spelling errors may be present.

• Abbreviations that are found at the end of an indulgence prayer/practice (like S. P. Ap., and S. C. Ind.,) are, in essence, a specific ecclesiastical approval for a particular indulgence.

• Traditional indulgences are ordered by their last date of approval.

CHAPTER I. “THE TRIUNE GOD” - II. ACTS OF THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES AND OF CONTRITION

39. My God, I love Thee. An indulgence of 300 days (Apostolic Brief, Dec. 30, 1919).

Every invocation may be eligible for a partial indulgence, if applied correctly, under ‘General Grant’ 1. The specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' is as follows: A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, while carrying out their duties and enduring the hardships of life, raise their minds in humble trust to God and make, at least mentally, some pious invocation.

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CHAPTER IX. “FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS” – Art. VII. “MISCELLANEOUS DEVOTIONS” – XXV. PRAYERS TO ASK PARDON FOR SIN

691. I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to all the Saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, to pray to the Lord our God for me.

The faithful who, conscious of their sins, with a truly contrite heart sincerely acknowledge themselves to be sinners before God, and confessing their guilt by this humble confession, recommend themselves to the prayers of the blessed Virgin Mary and the whole heavenly court with all earnestness are granted: An indulgence of 300 days. Those, moreover, who following the spirit of holy Mother Church make this confession to God before receiving Holy Communion, are granted: An indulgence of 500 days (S. P. Ap., Dec. 30, 1940).

This prayer is known as the Confiteor (the older version). Therefor it should be covered under Grant 9 as a legitimate act of contrition. The specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' is as follows: A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who, especially in preparation for sacramental confession, devoutly recite an act of contrition, according to any legitimate formula (e.g., the Confiteor, the psalm De profundis, or the psalm Miserere, or any of the gradual or penitential psalms).

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CHAPTER IX. “FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS” – Art. VII. “MISCELLANEOUS DEVOTIONS” – XXXVI. For the Consecration of Families

705. Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thou didst reveal to the blessed Margaret Mary Thy desire to rule over Christian families; behold, in order to please Thee, we stand before Thee this day, to proclaim Thy full sovereignty over our family. We desire henceforth to live Thy life, we desire that the virtues, to which Thou hast promised peace on earth, may flower in the bosom of our family; we desire to keep far from us the spirit of the world, which Thou hast condemned. Thou art King of our minds by the simplicity of our faith; Thou art King of our hearts by our love of Thee alone, with which our hearts are on fire and whose flame we shall keep alive by frequently receiving the Holy Eucharist. Be pleased, O Sacred Heart, to preside over our gathering together, to bless our spiritual and temporal affairs, to ward off all annoyance from us, to hallow our joys and comfort our sorrows. If any of us has ever been so unhappy as to fall into the misery of displeasing Thee, grant that he may remember, O Heart of Jesus, that Thou art full of goodness and mercy toward the repentant sinner. And when the hour of separation strikes and death enters our family circle, whether we go or whether we stay, we shall all bow humbly before Thine eternal decrees. This shall be our consolation, to remember that the day will come, when our entire family, once more united in heaven, shall be able to sing of Thy glory and Thy goodness forever. May the immaculate Heart of Mary and the glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph vouchsafe to offer Thee this our act of consecration, and to keep the memory thereof alive in us all the days of our lives. Glory to the Heart of Jesus, our King and our Father!

a) The members of a family, on the day when for the first time the family is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, if they recite the above prayer before a likeness of the Sacred Heart, are granted: An indulgence of 7 years; A plenary indulgence, if they fulfil the usual conditions.

b) The members of a family, on the day when this consecration is renewed each year, if they make use ofthe same prayer before a likeness of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, are granted: An indulgence of 3 years; A plenary indulgence, if they fulfil the usual conditions (Pius X, Rescript in his own hand, May 19, 1908, exhib. June 15, 1908; Benedict XV, Letter, April 27, 1915; S. P. Ap., Dec. 10 1923 and March 18, 1932). Note: The same indulgences may be gained under the usual conditions by the members of other institutes (a religious community, a parish, a college or school, etc.), both on the day when the consecration is made for the first time and each year on the day when it is renewed, provided that they make use of a form approved by the Ordinary (S. P. Ap., Dec. 30, 1923)

This prayer and traditional indulgence is written almost exactly the same in its current indulgence rendition. Under Grant 1 this prayer (presumably this specific prayer, even though the Grant doesn’t say so by name) may be prayed for a family consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' is as follows: A plenary indulgence is granted to the members of the family on the day on which it is first consecrated, if at all possible by a priest or deacon, to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus or to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, if they devoutly recite the duly approved prayer before an image of the Sacred Heart or the Holy Family; on the anniversary of the consecration, the indulgence will be partial.

This concludes the Traditional Indulgences

Every prayer/practice that we evaluated today is taken from the last approved publication of the Raccolta. The Raccolta was once the official book/document/list of approved Indulgences. In its last publication there were 780+ individualized prayers/practices that were approved for gaining indulgences.

In 1967 indulgence practices were revised so that indulgences are now, today, granted more in the style of “category” of prayers/practices rather than individually. This leaves me with the question: how do the indulgenced prayers/practices from the Raccolta (traditional indulgence) line up with the indulgences of today? That question is what this “study” seeks to answer.