Information on Plenary
Indulgence Requirements for July
25th Grandparents Day & the Elderly
This new World Day for
Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated every year on the 4th
Sunday in July. This year the date is July 25th. The Plenary Indulgence will be granted under the usual
conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer, according
to the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff during the solemn celebration he will
preside over in St. Peter’s Basilica or at the various functions that will be
held throughout the world.“This Court of
Mercy also grants the Plenary Indulgence on this same day to the faithful who
devote adequate time to actually or virtually visiting their elderly brothers
and sisters in need or in difficulty (such as the sick, the abandoned, the
disabled and other similar cases),” the note reads.Signed by the Major Penitentiary,
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, and by the Regent, Kryztof Nykiel, the
note says the Plenary Indulgence may also be granted to those who are unable to
leave their homes for serious reasons and “unite themselves spiritually to the
sacred functions of the World Day, offering to the Merciful God their prayers,
pains or sufferings of their lives, especially during the transmission, through
the means of television and radio, but also through the new means of social
communication.”