02/10/2021
[CONSECRATION TO ST.JOSEPH STARTS FEBRUARY 15]
My friends, this is a special year. We are living in a special time - THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH! We are truly blessed to receive all of these special graces during a special year. We have SIXTEEN ways to gain a plenary indulgence during the year of St. Joseph! Our dear Lord loves us so much, that even in the midst of our brokenness, he continues to shower us with great mercy.
With that being said, let us do this year together through the intercession of our spiritual father - St. Joseph!
16 PLENARY INDULGENCES DURING THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH (YOU CAN GAIN THEM EVERYDAY):
Note: You must go to confession, communion & pray for the intentions of the pope to be granted plenary indulgence.
THIS INDULGENCE CAN BE OFFERED FOR YOURSELF OR FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY
1. Participate in a spiritual retreat for at least one day that includes a meditation on St. Joseph.
2. Pray for St. Joseph's intercession for the unemployed, that they might find dignified work.
3. Recite the litany of St. Joseph for persecuted Christians (Byzantine Catholics have the option to an Akathist to St. Joseph)
4. Entrust one's daily work and activity to the protection of St. Joseph the Worker.
5. Follow St. Joseph's example in performing a corporal work of mercy. These include: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting the imprisoned, visiting the sick, and burying the dead.
6. Perform one of the spiritual works of mercy. This includes: comforting the sorrowful, counselling the doubtful, instructing the ignorant, admonishing the sinner, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving injuries, and praying for the living and the dead.
7. Pray the rosary together with one's family, in order that all Christian families may be stimulated to recreate the same atmosphere of intimate communion, love and prayer that was in the holy family.
8. Engaged couples can receive an indulgence from praying the rosary together.
9. Meditate for at least 30 minutes on the Lord's Prayer (Our Father), because St. Joseph invites us to rediscover our filial relationship with the father, to renew fidelity to prayer, to listen and correspond with profound discernment to God's will.
10. Pray an approved prayer to St. Joseph on St. Joseph Sunday (Sunday after Christmas of the Byzantine Catholic tradition).
11. Celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph on March 19, with an act of piety in honor of St. Joseph.
12. Pray an approved prayer to St. Joseph on the 19th of the month (throughout the year).
13. Honor St. Joseph with an act of piety or approved prayer on a Wednesday (the day traditionally set for St. Joseph).
14. Pray to St. Joseph on the feast of the Holy Family (December 29th).
15. Celebrate the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1st with an act of piety or prayer.
16. The elderly, the sick, or the dying who are unable to leave their homes have special permission to receive an indulgence by offering with trust in God the pains, discomforts of their lives, with a prayer to St. Joseph (he is the hope of the sick and the patron of a happy death).
St. Joseph, pray for us!