Pope Benedict XVI will grant Plenary Indulgences during the Year of Priests. According to a new Vatican decree, priests ''who, on any day, devotedly pray Lauds or Vespers before the Blessed Sacrament exposed to public adoration or in the tabernacle'' and laity who ''in church or oratory, devotedly attend Holy Mass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ, supreme and eternal Priest, for the priests of the Church, or perform any good work to sanctify and mould them to His Heart'' are granted Plenary Indulgence.
The indulgences can also be applied to priest's deceased confrÉres as per the decree's guidance.
The Year for Priests gets underway on June 19 and has been called in honour of St John Vianney.
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