We are evaluating old indulgences that have been approve on todays date of:
March
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List of Traditional materials we will be looking at today, and the current/withstanding grants that they satisfy (directly or indirectly).
530. a) Reciting thirteen times the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be / b) The devotion of the thirteen Tuesdays or Sundays
potential partial indulgence… General Grant 2, 3, or 4
NOTE:
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.
The full written outline of the requirements for a partial or plenary indulgence, found at the end of an indulgence prayer/practice, may be omitted if not all of the information is unique or notable. (You will see three dots when there is a break in text …)
CHAPTER VII. - “THE SAINTS” – Art. IV “IN HONOR OF OTHER SAINTS” – XXIII. Saint Anthony of Padua, Confessor
530. a) The faithful who devoutly recite Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be, thirteen times in honor of St. Anthony of Padua, may gain: An indulgence of 300 days once a day (S. C. Ind., June 9, 1896; S. P. Ap., Nov. 18, 1935)
b) The faithful who spend some time in devout meditations or prayers, or who perform some other acts of piety in honor of St. Anthony of Padua, on Tuesday or Sunday of any week, with the intention of so doing for thirteen Tuesdays or Sundays without interruption, may gain: A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions (Apostolic Brief, March 1, 1898)
Though I’m not sure, part a) of this indulgence may be able to satisfy Grant 21. My only issue is that Grant 21 specifies prayer like those found in the Missal, so I’m not sure if non-specific prayers would count. 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.
This indulgence is ‘notwithstanding’
There is, however, a way to carry the essence of this indulgence into other indulgence categories that are up to date.
The categories I would like to mention in particular are the General-Grants 2, 3, and 4.
These General-Grants state:
G2) A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who led by the spirit of faith, give compassionately of themselves or of their goods to serve their brothers in need.
G3)A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, in a spirit of penance, voluntarily abstain from something that is licit for and pleasing to them.
G4) A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, in the particular circumstances of daily life, voluntarily give explicit witness to their faith before others.
If we wanted to extend this traditional indulgence by doing acts of piety in honor of St. Anthony; alms giving, abstaining and witnessing one’s faith may be a way of doing that. If you would like to , out of personal piety, link up 1) a habit of giving, 2) a period of abstinence, or 3) preforming an action of faith before another – with the sentiment of honor to St. Anthony, then this could be seen as a way to participate in this traditional grant # 530 which also satisfies current indulgence requirements.
This concluded 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.
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