Prayers for the Departed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 4Source and notes
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| Printed in | THE NEW RACCOLTA, OR, COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS. TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS. |
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| Imprint | PHILADELPHIA, PETER F. CUNNINGHAM & SON, 1903 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | p. 504 |
| Scan | leaf 513 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED BY THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES. Imprimatur: ✠ JACOBUS, CARD. GIBBONS, ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS. BALTIMORE, July 20, 1887. Imprimatur: ✠ PATRICK JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 1900. Moreover, Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., by virtue of his apostolic authority, has approved this Collection issued from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, and, therefore, it must be regarded by all as the correct and authorized collection of indulgences hitherto granted for all the faithful and for such as are in communities specially designated. Wherefore, if by chance any doubt should arise either as to sense of the grant or the conditions requisite for gaining the indulgences, it must be determined solely by this Raccolta which His Holiness has directed to be considered the complete guide. On this account he has ordered the present decree to be prepared and prefixed to the present edition. Given at Rome, at the office of the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, on the 23d day of July, 1898. FR. H. M. CARD. GOTTI, Prefect. L. ✠ S. † A. SABATUCCI, Archiep. Antinoen. Secretary. The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics has approved of, as authentic, and permitted to be printed and published, this English translation of the Italian Raccolta, a book containing various prayers and pious exercises, to which the Roman Pontiffs have attached indulgences. This approbation was given after the work had been duly examined by two professors of theology of Woodstock College, who testified that they found this translation to be entirely faithful and in full accord with the Italian original, published in the year 1886 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Given at Rome, at the Office of the Secretary of this same Sacred Congregation, April 28, 1887. FR. THOMAS MARIA CARD. ZIGLIARA, Prefect. [L. ✠ S.] ALEXANDER, BISHOP OENSIS, Secretary. DECRETUM ANNI 1886. |
| Indulgence | To maintain this pious practice, the Sovereign Pontiff, Benedict XIV., by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, April 10, 1745, granted: AN INDULGENCE OF SEVEN YEARS AND SEVEN QUARANTINES, to be gained on each of the said days by all the faithful who, with contrite hearts, devoutly make the said hour of prayer. This indulgence the same Sovereign Pontiff, by a decree of the same S. Congr., April 3, 1751, extended to all the faithful who assist at the sacred ceremonies usually performed on those days, either of rite, or of custom, in memory of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, provided, as has been said, they pray in some manner for the souls of the faithful departed. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Seasons
- Holy Week
- Prayers for
- the souls in purgatory
As on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week, the sacred liturgy does not permit priests to celebrate mass, the pious custom has been introduced into some places of making, for the space of at least one hour, on each of those days, some kind of vocal or mental prayer in suffrage for the souls in purgatory. This is done in order that those souls, deprived during that space of time of the suffrages afforded them by the mass, may be assisted in some other manner. To maintain this pious practice, the Sovereign Pontiff, Benedict XIV., by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, April 10, 1745, granted:
AN INDULGENCE OF SEVEN YEARS AND SEVEN QUARANTINES, to be gained on each of the said days by all the faithful who, with contrite hearts, devoutly make the said hour of prayer.
This indulgence the same Sovereign Pontiff, by a decree of the same S. Congr., April 3, 1751, extended to all the faithful who assist at the sacred ceremonies usually performed on those days, either of rite, or of custom, in memory of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, provided, as has been said, they pray in some manner for the souls of the faithful departed.