Buona Domenica...

Good Sunday!

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"Sunday is the core of our civilization, 

dedicated to thought and reverence."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

This Hymn can be sung to the tune used for

The Glory of These Forty Days

 

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer.

That calls me from a world of care

And bids me at my Father's throne

Make all my wants and wishes known!

In seasons of distress and grief 

My soul has often found relief ,

And oft escaped the tempter's snare

By thy return, sweet hour of prayer. 

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A Sunday well spent

brings happiness and content. 

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Sunday, July 24

For this joyful occasion, the Holy Father has granted Plenary 

Indulgences to grandparents, the elderly and all the faithful who participate

in one of the following "motivated by a true spirit of penance and charity."

~ By participating in a solemn liturgical celebration on July 24th, 

either in person or watching virtually “uniting themselves spiritually 

to the sacred functions of the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, 

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.”

~ By devoting adequate time on July 24th, to actually or virtually visit 

those who are elderly and in need or in difficulty 

(such as the sick, the abandoned, the disabled and other similar cases).

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Gaining a Pleanary Indulgence is significant because it is the remission 

of the punishment for all sins committed from the day of baptism.  

The indulgence can be applied to any deceased person you wish 

but it cannot be applied to any living person, except yourself. 

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The following conditions must also be met: 

Confess one’s sins to be in God’s grace, (either 8 days before or after July 24)

Attend Holy Mass and receive Holy Communion

Pray, in particular:

For the intentions of the Pope (The Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be)

Renounce all attachment to sin, even venial sin