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2005/8/10 下午 08:00:48
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Special indulgences for World Youth Day
Aug. 09 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI has granted two special indulgences for World Youth Day, which will be held in Cologne from August 16 to 21.
According to a Latin-language decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary dated August 2 and made public August 8, a plenary indulgence is available to the faithful who attend the sacred functions of World Youth Day and also "attentively and religiously" participate in its solemn conclusion on Sunday, August 21. The decree lists the additional conditions that must be fulfilled in order to gain this or any other plenary indulgence: sacramental Confession, reception of Holy Communion, prayer for the intention of the Holy Father, and a soul free from attachment to any sin.
A partial indulgence is available to all the other faithful, wherever they may be during World Youth Day, if, with a contrite heart, they pray fervently that Christian youth
- be strengthened in the profession of the Faith;
- be confirmed in love and reverence toward their parents; and
- form a firm resolution to follow "the holy norms of the Gospel and Mother Church" in living out their present or future family life, or whatever vocation they are called to by God.
The decree was signed by Cardinal James Francis Stafford and Father P. Gianfranco Girotti, OFM Conv., the major penitentiary and regent of the tribunal.
Plenaria conceditur christifidelibus Indulgentia, lucranda suetis sub condicionibus (sacramentali nempe Confessione, eucharistica Communione ac oratione ad mentem Summi Pontificis), animo quidem elongato ab affectu erga quodcumque peccatum, si quot ex sacris functionibus, decursu "XX Mundialis Iuventutis Diei" Coloniae celebrandis, necnon sollemni eiusdem conclusioni attente ac religiose interfuerint. Ceteris christifidelibus, ubicumque fuerint dum praedictus conventus peragetur, partialis conceditur Indulgentia, si corde saltem contrito, ferventibus precibus a Deo petierint ut iuvenes christiani in Fidei professione roborentur, in amore et reverentia erga proprios parentes firmentur, firmumque propositum eliciant instituendae sive familiae ab ipsis noviter formandae, sive iam formatae, sive denique propriae vitae pro cuique vocatione a Deo indicata, iuxta sanctas Evangelii et Matris Ecclesiae normas.
Praesenti pro hac vice valituro. Contrariis quibuscumque minime obstantibus.
Datum Romae, ex aedibus Paenitentiariae Apostolicae, die 2 mensis Augusti anni 2005, in pia "Portiunculae" memoria.
Iacobus Franciscus S.R.E. Card. STAFFORD
Paenitentiarius Maior
Ioannes Franciscus Girotti, O.F.M. Conv.
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