Each Shrine has designated a week of prayer and events, which the faithful are encouraged to attend. At the first location you visit, you will receive a special Shrine Pilgrimage passport, which will be stamped at each location you visit. Bishop Brennan has also decreed that those who visit these shrines during the designated times and fulfill the necessary conditions shall receive a plenary indulgence. We pray that all who engage in this pilgrimage will be united in prayer.
1471 The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the sacrament of Penance.
An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.
An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin." The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead.
Courtesy of Catechism of the Catholic Church
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