2nd EDITION COMOREZAR.SUBSTACK.COM by: THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST (Reviewed by Karen Rocha with updated subtitles on Feb. 20, 2025)VIGIL - MEMORIAL OF ST. PADRE PIO, 2nd EDITION POST1 ; 3rd Edition of video posted on the Feast of Sts. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, February 20, 2025.
RESOURCES: PAENITENTIARIA APOSTOLICA, “ENCHIRIDION INDULGENTIARUM DECRETUM”
Enchiridion indulgentiarum quarto editur
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/tribunals/apost_penit/documents/rc_trib_appen_doc_20020826_enchiridion-indulgentiarum_lt.html
O VÍDEO DO PADRE TADEU LANCTON, MIC EXPLORA COMO APROVEITAR A 2ª MISSA PELAS ALMAS SANTAS2 (Decreed by His Holiness Pope Francis on 13.05.2024 (c.f. Vatican's Jubilee Year document)
REVIEWED BY: KAREN ROCHA & IZZY NUNZIATO; INTERVIEW & SUBTITLES BY: TRAVESSA DA SENRA HOUSE PRESS & HOSTED BY AMELIA GRACE. INTERVIEW LIVE RECORD FEATURES FR. THADDAEUS LANCTON, MIC VISITING THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST FROM THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE DIVINE MERCY (STOCKBRIDGE, MA, USA)FR. LANCTON: “The most efficacious prayer for the souls in purgatory so that they can enter heaven is the Holy Mass.”
“So for me as a priest that's offering the Holy Mass for the lay faithful, it's participating in the Holy Mass, especially through Holy Communion.”
“And what the Vatican is speaking of in regard to this holy year and a second plenary indulgence is that we can obtain a plenary indulgence for ourselves on a given day, and now we can offer a second plenary indulgence but only for the Holy Souls in purgatory.”
FOR THIS POST, FR. THAD's VIDEO EXPLORES HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 2nd HOLY MASS in the JUBILEE ORDINARY for the SAKE OF THE HOLY SOULS.
The goal of today's post and other posts on Purgatory allows us to focus on the Holy Souls as part of a growing movement to actively partake in the transporting of more souls into Heaven. Subtitles in Portuguese by Travessa da Senra Hous Press (Porto, Portugal).
CANON LAW REGARDING HOLY COMMUNION & THE HOLY MASS
“Now, the rule up to now has been that you can only receive one plenary indulgence a day, whether for yourself or for the souls in purgatory. And the church since 1984, the new code of Canon Law, has insisted that people can only receive Holy Communion twice in a day if they attend a full second Mass.”
“And that was to avoid some abuses before Vatican II where people would attend, in air quotes, “Masses”. For instance, at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. There are so many side altars, they would go from altar to altar and “receive” Holy Communion at these “Masses” without actually attending the Masses (as if the multiplicity of receiving eight Holy Communions in one morning meant that they were growing in holiness more than others). So that's the reason why the Vatican put a cap at two, because the idea is that it's not just about the number of times as much as the depth with which I participate.”
SUPERNATURAL CHARITY
“And the point here is that we can grow in supernatural charity — the idea being it's not just our love for others on a human level, but also love for the souls in purgatory whom we don't see; so, it requires faith, that we can grow in supernatural charity by offering that second plenary indulgence for them through receiving Holy Communion a second time. And so that then becomes the act of charity: doing that extra step in a given day and offering it specifically for the relief of the Holy Souls.”
ABOUT REV. FR. THADDAEUS LANCTON, MIC3
Fr. Thaddaeus Lancton, MIC is the Formator of Marian Seminarians, Steubenville, Ohio.
Father Thaddaeus was born as the youngest son to a Catholic family of five on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, in the year 1987, in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
He had two childhood dreams:
becoming an Air Force pilot and an astronaut,
and becoming a priest.
Having lost grandparents and parents during his youth, he learned from a young age to pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
After attending Strake Jesuit for high school, Fr. Thaddaeus entered the Jesuit novitiate for one year in 2005. After leaving, he entered the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception in 2007.
He has obtained a B.A. in philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a master’s in psychology from the Divine Mercy University, and a doctorate in sacred theology from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Stepping on the Serpent: The Journey of Trust with Mary (Marian Press, 2017), and Shining in Spotless Splendor: Consecration to the Immaculate Conception (Marian Press, 2023).
Since Fr. Thaddaeus has learned and speaks various languages, he has lived and worked in the Philippines, Poland, Bolivia, and Argentina. He is currently assigned to the Marian house in Steubenville, Ohio as formator for the seminarians.
Father Thaddaeus is inspired by the mystery of the Immaculate Conception to live and proclaim the free gift of the mercy of God, which accompanies, protects, and guides us from conception until death.
JUBILEE 2025 INDULGENCES: MORE RESOURCES
READ THE FULL JUBILEE INDULGENCE DOCUMENT IN ENGLISH
LEIA O DOCUMENTO COMPLETO EM PORTUGUÊS AQUI:
YEAR OF PRAYER CHALLENGE #1: OFFER TO PRAY THE MYSTERIES of the HOLY ROSARY WITH ONE OTHER PERSON TODAY.
JUBILEE 2025 CHALLENGE #2: HOW TO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR SOULS
Who would you be willing to offer a second Holy Mass for tomorrow?
For the 2025 Jubilee Ordinary, the Rosary Hour Podcast wishes to encourage all the Faithful to take advantage of this year of Grace.
Pastors need help reminding all who are able to write down a list of people to pray for at a SECOND HOLY MASS in the next 300+ days for the sake of the Holy Souls.
Can you think of someone in your life who has died and who might be calling you to pray for them in this way?
Maybe you have lost a loved one - a friend, your grandfather, your grandmother; a priest, a sister, a brother, a mom or dad. Maybe you know someone who cannot go to Church and who cannot participate in this Jubilee opportunity to draw from the Treasury of the Church.
If you can imagine for a moment … the joy and relief it would bring the soul you could pray for as a proxy — in this time of grace, would you embrace the chance to help them by receive a Holy Communion on their behalf? Think of the wonderful gift the Church is offering to all pilgrims of hope and the lovely gesture of Faith that it causes us to have — like the Faith of the Centurian?
If you can make this sacrifice of time to attend a second Holy Mass for them, perhaps even when you go on vacation, you and your family can make a difference to the destiny of a Holy Soul!
ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA TELLS US HOW TO PRAY AFTER HOLY COMMUNION AT BOTH HOLY MASSES IN THE JUBILEE ORDINARY:
Have this prayer in front of you when you do so, if you so choose:
“ANIMA CHRISTI” which you can recite for YOURSELF and FOR THE HOLY SOUL for which you are offering to receive a 2nd Holy Communion as recommended by St. Ignatius of Loyola
Note: all the Faithful are invited to recite with a priest as a congregation or silently after receiving with great reverence the Holy Eucharist:
“ANIMA CHRISTI”
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Corpus Christi, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O Good Jesus, hear me.
Within thy wounds, hide me.
Never permit me to be separated from Thee.
From the malignant enemy, defend me.
At the hour of my death, call me.
And command me to come to Thee,
That with Thy saints I may praise Thee,
Forever and ever.
Amen.
PRAYING THE MASS FOR A HOLY SOUL: INSERT THE NAME IN THE BLANK
Carry with you this card or save to your “Save A Soul” photos folder so you can pull it up when you get to a SECOND HOLY MASS in ONE DAY.
FINAL CHALLENGE: Read about how to pray the Mass in Portuguese!
https://www.clerus.org/clerus/dati/2007-11/23-13/MISSA.html
ANNOTATED FOOTNOTES4 (FR. THAD’S CONVERSATION TO BE CONTINUED)
Directed with Episode Spiritual Directors Fr. Thaddaeus Lancton, MIC (National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, MA), Fr. Elias Mary Mills, FI (Franciscan of the Immaculate Conception from Griswold, USA) with Amelia Grace. Music is from the Holy Mass at Lapa and episode content was curated by the Spiritual Director, Fr. Nuno Rocha.
Fr. Thad’s Day 49 of the 90 days for the Souls in Purgatory programme led by the Marians of the Immaculate Conception was prayed last year and can still be accessed via YOUTUBE:
See below the relevant text by the Vatican pertaining to Fr. Thad’s commentary in his Rosary Hour Podcast interview Live Record:
III.-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.
Despite the rule that only one plenary indulgence can be obtained per day (cf. Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, IV ed., norm. 18, § 1), the faithful who have carried out an act of charity on behalf of the souls in Purgatory, if they receive Holy Communion a second time that day, can obtain the plenary indulgence twice on the same day, applicable only to the deceased (this must take place within a Eucharistic celebration; see can. 917 and the Pontifical Commission for the authentic interpretation of the CIC, Responsa ad dubia, 1, 11 July 1984). Through this double act, a praiseworthy exercise of supernatural charity is carried out, through that bond by which the faithful still journeying on this earth are united in the mystical Body of Christ, with those who have already completed their journey, by virtue of the fact that “the Jubilee indulgence, thanks to the power of prayer, is intended in a particular way for those who have gone before us, so that they may obtain full mercy” (Spes non confundit, 22).
In a special way "during the Holy Year, we are called to be tangible signs of hope for those of our brothers and sisters who experience hardships of any kind" (Spes non confundit, 10). Therefore, the Indulgence is also linked to certain works of mercy and penance, which bear witness to the conversion undertaken. The faithful, following the example and mandate of Christ, are encouraged to carry out works of charity or mercy more frequently, especially in the service of those brothers and sisters who are burdened by various needs. More especially, they should rediscover these “corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, heal the sick, visit the imprisoned, and bury the dead " (Misericordiae vultus, 15) and rediscover also "the spiritual works of mercy: to counsel the doubtful, instruct the ignorant, admonish sinners, comfort the afflicted, forgive offences, bear patiently those who do us ill, and pray for the living and the dead" (ibid.).
and in PORTUGUESE:
III.- Nas obras de misericórdia e de penitência
Além disso, os fiéis poderão obter a Indulgência jubilar se, com ânimo devoto, participarem em Missões populares, em exercícios espirituais ou em encontros de formação sobre os textos do Concílio Vaticano II e do Catecismo da Igreja Católica, que se realizem numa igreja ou noutro lugar adequado, segundo a intenção do Santo Padre.
Apesar da norma segundo a qual se pode obter uma só Indulgência plenária por dia (cf. Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, IV ed., norm. 18, § 1), os fiéis que terão praticado o ato de caridade a favor das almas do Purgatório,
se se aproximarem legitimamente do sacramento da Comunhão uma segunda vez no mesmo dia, poderão obter duas vezes no mesmo dia a Indulgência plenária, aplicável apenas aos defuntos (entende-se no âmbito de uma celebração eucarística; cf. cân. 917 e Pontificia Commissione per l’interpretazione autentica del CIC, Responsa ad dubia, 1, 11 iul. 1984).
Com esta dupla oblação, cumpre-se um louvável exercício de caridade sobrenatural, através daquele vínculo pelo qual estão unidos no Corpo místico de Cristo os fiéis que ainda peregrinam sobre a terra, juntamente com aqueles que já completaram o seu caminho, em virtude do facto de que “a Indulgência Jubilar, em virtude da oração, destina-se de modo particular a todos aqueles que nos precederam, para que obtenham plena misericórdia” (Spes non confundit, 22).
Mas, de modo particular, precisamente “no Ano Jubilar, seremos chamados a ser sinais palpáveis de esperança para muitos irmãos e irmãs que vivem em condições de dificuldade” (Spes non confundit, 10): a Indulgência está, portanto, ligada também às obras de misericórdia e de penitência, com as quais se testemunha a conversão empreendida. Os fiéis, seguindo o exemplo e o mandato de Cristo, sejam encorajados a praticar mais frequentemente obras de caridade ou misericórdia, principalmente ao serviço daqueles irmãos que se encontram oprimidos por diversas necessidades.
UMA ENTREVISTA COM PADRE TADEU
Mass at Lapa: A Missionary Church
EXCERPT from MASS IN PORTUGUESE AT LAPA:
“Sois uma paróquia com desígnio missionário”The above statement was uttered by the Archbishop of Évora whose sermon inspired this series for Season 3 via COMO REZAR as we investigate the theme of “Sanctity and The Secret of Joy”: “[Igreja da Lapa]: you are a parish with a missionary purpose, but also because thousands and thousands of people come here, when you give your living testimony in the streets of this land.” ~ D. Francisco José Vilas Boas Senra de Faria Coelho
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