We are followers of Jesus Christ living in joyful, loving fellowship within his Catholic Church through the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1471). The Indulgence for a visit to the Shrine during the Jubilee year may be obtained daily for one’s self, or, as an act of supreme charity, the person making the pious visit may receive the Indulgence on behalf of a member of Christ’s faithful who has died. The conditions for obtaining the Plenary Indulgence, both on November 3 or by making a pious visit to the Cathedral and Shrine during the Jubilee year, indicate that the faithful Christian:
- have the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin, even venial sin;
- have sacramentally confessed his/her sins within 20 days of receiving the Indulgence;
- receive the Holy Eucharist, preferably on the day receiving the Indulgence;
- pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff.