Special Plenary Indulgence Nov. 3 for the Ordinariate Jubilee Mass

Our Ordinariate's Bishop Steven Lopes has directed St. Alban's and all Ordinariate Catholic churches to celebrate a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit with Solemn Te Deum on Sunday Nov. 3rd in thanksgiving for Anglicanorum Coetibus, the 2009 papal decree which established worldwide the Ordinariates, Catholic dioceses with Anglican traditions.

This Mass begins a Jubilee Year for the Ordinariate. The Holy Father has granted a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions as stated below) to all Catholics who attend the Ordinariate's Divine Worship Mass (such as at St. Alban's 11AM Sunday Mass) on Nov. 3rd.

This indulgence will also be granted to Catholics who make a pilgrimage to the Cathedral and Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston in the Jubilee Year, from Nov. 3, 2019 to Sept. 27, 2020, the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham.

According to the message sent to priests of 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.