DECREE ON THE PORTIUNCULA INDULGENCE

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1471

DECREE ON THE PORTIUNCULA INDULGENCE

* . The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in, a plenary meeting held on May 24, by a general decree, to have force until a new disposition is made, decided to lay down that: 1. Both for all the faithful living in the world and for pious communities, the concessions for the Portiuncuia Indulgence which have hitherto been given by the Holy See and which have expired or are to expire in the future, are to be held as indefinitely extended, with the proviso that the clauses and conditions of the preceding Indult are to remain valid and taking into account, as regards the time fixed for making the sacred visits, the recent Decree of January 26 of the current year issued by this Supreme S. Congregation (Acta Afostolicae Sedis an. 11l vol. 111, pay. 6 lf). 2. For new concessions both for the faithful living in the world and for pious communities the provision is also indefinitely committed to the respective Ordinaries with the necessary and opportune faculties, saving however the clauses and conditions prescribed in the Main-propria of June 11 of last year (Acta Apostolicae Sedis, an. 11, vol. 11, pay. J/.1/A). - 1 3. Finally, for the respective Ordinaries is indefinitely extended the faculty granted to them in the said frofrio of last year, of appointing for the gaining of the above-mentioned Indulgence, instead of August 2, the Sunday immediately following, with the observance of the clauses and conditions thereto attached.