December 7-8 - Traditional Indulgence of the day!

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

December

7 & 8

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

• 96. The Consecration of oneself to Jesus Christ, Incarnate Wisdom, by the hands of Mary

  • partial indulgence… Grant 15

• 532. Prayer of Petition - O wondrous Saint Anthony

  • partial indulgence… Grant 21

• 552. A Devout Exercise - The Thirteen Fridays in honor of St. Francis of Paola

  • partial indulgence… Grant 21

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 III. “GOD THE SON” – Art. I. “THE LORD JESUS CHRIST” – III. An Act of Consecration

96. The Consecration of oneself to Jesus Christ, Incarnate Wisdom, by the hands of Mary - O Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom, most sweet and adorable Jesus, true God and true Man, only Son of the Eternal Father and of Mary ever Virgin, I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and the splendor of Thy Father through eternity, and in the virginal womb of Mary, Thy most worthy Mother, at the time of Thine Incarnation.

I return Thee thanks for that Thou didst empty Thyself, taking upon Thee the form of a slave, to deliver me from the cruel slavery of the devil. I praise Thee and glorify Thee for that Thou didst willingly become subject in all things to Mary, Thy holy Mother, in order to make me through her Thy faithful slave. But alas, ungrateful and faithless that I am, I have not kept the promises I made Thee so solemnly in my baptism. Nay, I have utterly failed to do my bounden duty; I am no more worthy to be called Thy son nor Thy slave, and since there is nothing in me that does not provoke Thy rebukes and Thine indignation, I dare no longer approach alone unto Thy sacred and august Majesty. Wherefore I have recourse to the intercession of Thy most holy Mother, whom Thou hast given me to be my intercessor with Thee; and it is by this means that I hope to obtain from Thee the grace of contrition, the pardon of my sins, and the gift of abiding wisdom.

For which reason I salute thee, O Mary Immaculate, living tabernacle of the Divinity, wherein the eternal Wisdom lies hidden to be adored by Angels and men. I salute thee, O Queen of heaven and earth, to whose dominion is subject all that is less than God. I salute thee, O sure refuge of sinners, whose mercy faileth none; graciously hear my prayers for divine wisdom, and to this end receive the vows and oblations which my lowliness offers unto thee.

I. N..., a faithless sinner, renew and ratify this day at thy hands my baptismal vows. I renounce Satan for ever and all his works and pomps, and I give myself wholly to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to bear my cross after Him all the days of my life. And in order that I may be more faithful to Him than I have hitherto been, I choose thee this day, O Mary, in the presence of the whole court of heaven for my Mother and my Mistress.

I deliver and consecrate to thee, after the manner of a bond-slave, my body and my soul, my interior and exterior goods, and even the value of my good works, past, present and future, leaving thee the full and entire right to dispose of me and of all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure and the greater glory of God both in time and in eternity.

Accept, O gracious Virgin, this little offering of my bondage, in honor of and in union with that submission which the Eternal Wisdom willed to show toward thy Motherhood; as a mark of homage to that dominion which thou and thy divine Son have over me, a wretched worm and a miserable sinner; in thanksgiving for the privileges with which the Most Holy Trinity has favored thee. I protest that henceforth I wish, as thy true slave, to seek thine honor and to obey thee in all things.

O Mother most admirable, present me to thy Son, as His slave for ever, in order that, having purchased me through thee, He may receive me through thee. O Mother of mercy, procure for me the grace of obtaining true wisdom from God and of being set thereby in the number of those whom thou lovest, whom thou teachest, whom thou guidest, whom thou dost sustain and protect as thy children and thy slaves.

O faithful Virgin, render me in all things so perfect a disciple, imitator and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ thy Son, that through thine intercession and example I may come to the fulness of His stature on earth and the plenitude of His glory in heaven, Amen (S. L. M. Grignion de Montfort).

A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and on the 28th day of April (Pius X Rescript in his own hand, Dec. 24, 1907, exhib. Jan. 22, 1908; S. C. of the Holy Office, Dec. 7, 1927).

Even though there is a current grant for consecration, it is for a Family Consecration which does not use this prayer. Therefore I will simply place this prayer under Grant 15 for mental prayer. The specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' is as follows: A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who for their personal edification devoutly spend time in mental prayer.

P.S. There are partial and plenary indulgences under Grant 28 for those who renew their baptismal vows, on certain occasions. Some occasions ofer a partial indulgence for any ‘formula’ other occasions offer a plenary indulgence when praying a legitimately approved formula. I do not know if this is considered to be a legitimately approved formula

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CHAPTER VII. - “THE SAINTS” – Art. IV “IN HONOR OF OTHER SAINTS” – XXIII. Saint Anthony of Padua, Confessor

532. Prayer of Petition - O wondrous Saint Anthony, glorious by reason of the fame of thy miracles, who hadst the happiness of receiving within thine arms our blessed Lord under the guise of a little child, obtain for me of His bounty this favor that I desire from the bottom of my heart. Thou who wast so gracious unto poor sinners, regard not the lack of merit on the part of him who calls upon thee, but consider the glory of God, which will be exalted once more through thee, to the salvation of my soul and the granting of the petition that I now make with such ardent yearning.

As a pledge of my gratitude, I beg thee to accept my promise to live henceforth more agreeably to the teachings of the Gospel, and to be devoted to the service of the poor whom thou didst ever love and still dost love so greatly; bless this my resolution and obtain for me the grace to be faithful thereto even until death. Amen.

An indulgence of 300 days, once a day. A plenary indulgence once a month, on the usual conditions, for the daily recitation of this prayer (Leo XIII, Audience, May 6, 1899; S. C. Ind., May 15, 1899; S. P. Ap., Dec. 7, 1936).

Approved prayers may be said on the memorial of any saint listed in the calendar, according to Grant 21. The specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' is as follows: A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who on the memorial of any saint listed in the calendar recite in that saint’s honor the prayer taken from the Missal or another one approved by legitimate authority.

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CHAPTER VII. - “THE SAINTS” – Art. IV “IN HONOR OF OTHER SAINTS” – XXXVIII. SAINT FRANCIS OF PAOLA, CONFESSOR

552. A Devout Exercise - The faithful on any of thirteen consecutive Fridays which they purpose to devote to the pious exercise known as "The Thirteen Fridays in honor of St. Francis of Paola," which consists of the recitation of the Our Father and the Hail Mary thirteen times on each Friday if they complete the aforesaid recitation, may gain: A plenary indigence on the usual conditions (Apostolic Brief, Dec. 8, 1928)

Most devout exercised, as expressions of the faith, may be covered under one of the General Grants (General Grant 2, 3, or 4). Otherwise, please refer to the above (# 532) for the specific reference in the 'Manuel of Indulgences' regarding prayers in honor of the saints

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.