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The Great Escape 1963

Well in addition to a New Year it’s a New Month so while the blog is now a part time hobby there is still a new Indulgence Calendar. (Jimmy Carter will have to wait till next month as the calendar was done before he died.)

And yes a Protestant can in fact be on the indulgence calendar, in fact as they don’t believe in purgatory and aren’t praying for their dead one might consider that a Protestant needs the prayers of the indulgence calendar even more to hurry them along through purgatory as they aren’t getting a lot of help in that regard from friends and family nor are masses being said except for general masses for the souls in purgagtory.

And of course this jubilee year there are special indulgences available not only to those who visit Rome and the jubilee churches there but in local dioceses everywhere. Check at your local Diocese web site for details and also at the USCCB site for more details on the Jubilee

The English language Papal Bull containing listing the special plenary indulgences available is here.

A quick summery the special Jubilee year indungences are avaialble if you:

1. Pilgrimages The faithful, pilgrims of hope, will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence granted by the Holy Father if they undertake a pious pilgrimage to a sacred jubilee site:
   • If you can’t get to Rome, the Holy Land check the local diocese for the site designated.
2. Pious visits to sacred places , individually or in a group, they devoutly visit any Jubilee site and there, for a suitable period of time, engage in Eucharistic adoration and meditation, concluding with
   • the Our Father
   • the Profession of Faith in any legitimate form
   • and invocations to Mary, the Mother of God, so that in this Holy Year everyone “will come to know the closeness of Mary, the most affectionate of mothers, who never abandons her children” (Spes non confundit, 24).
   • In addition to Jubilee sites listed check with the local Bishop’s web site for sites in your area
3. Works of mercy and penance In addition, the faithful will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence if, with a devout spirit, they participate in popular missions, spiritual exercises, or formation activities on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, held in a church or other suitable place, according to the mind of the Holy Father…the faithful will be able to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence if they
   • visit, for an appropriate amount of time, their brothers and sisters who are in need or in difficulty (the sick, prisoners, lonely elderly people, disabled people…), in a sense making a pilgrimage to Christ present in them
   • In particular the penitential nature of Friday can be rediscovered through abstaining, in a spirit of penance, at least for one day of the week from futile distractions (real but also virtual distractions, for example,
     • the use of the media and/or social networks
     • From superfluous consumption (fasting and abstinence)
     • donating a proportionate sum of money to the poor;
     • supporting works of a religious or social nature, especially in support of the defence and protection of life in all its phases,
     • by supporting the quality of life of abandoned children, young people in difficulty,
     • the needy or lonely elderly people
     • migrants from various countries “who leave their homelands behind in search of a better life for themselves and for their families”
     • dedicating a reasonable portion of one’s free time to voluntary activities that are of service to the community or to other similar forms of personal commitment

In other words there are a TON of ways to earn that 2nd daily plenary indulgence available through Jan 6th 2026 although the 2nd indulgence MUST be for the soul of someone deceased not for yourself.

And remember a Plenary indulgence pays for the ENTIRE debt of sin, it’s a get out of purgatory free card and while Martin Luthor rightly complained about those who disgracefully sold indulgences for profit, that disgrace is long gone. These indulgences like all indulgences won’t cost you a penny. All you need is the willingness to act.

And unlike The Great Escape where they could get dozens out due to darkness through this light we can get millions to where to their ultimate destination who can’t help themselves.

And what better day to act than Jan 1st the Feast of Mary, the other reason for the season because of her act of humbly saying “yes” to she became the Mother of God and made possible the salvation of all his children who are willing to say “yes” to him as well.