sins if, being truly penitent and having gone to confession and received Holy Communion, they devoutly visit a church or chapel or oratory of the aforementioned Confraternity that is Congregation on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, from first vespers until the setting of the sun, and there they raise their prayers to God for concord between Christian governments, for the eradication of heresy, and the exaltation of Holy Mother Church. In addition, on four other days of the year (whether feasts or non-feasts), agreed upon and chosen permanently by the confreres with the approval of the Ordinary, we grant an indulgence of seven years and as many quadragenes to those confreres who being truly penitent and having confessed and received Holy Communion will visit and pray in a church or chapel or oratory of the same kind. As often as the confreres take part in Masses and other Divine Offices celebrated and recited in the said church or chapel or oratory, wherever it may be, whether for public assemblies or privately for the Confraternity that is Congregation; or they bring the poor to a hospice or make peace between enemies, whether they bring it to be or help preserve it, and also when they escort the bodies of the deceased to the grave, both of the aforementioned confreres as well as of others; or when they accompany the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist in processions with permission of the Ordinary, both in bringing the Eucharist to the sick and in other kinds of processions; or if impeded from doing so, at the sound of the bell they recite once the Our Father and the Hail Mary, or also if they recite the Our Father and Hail Mary five times for the souls of the deceased confreres; or lastly, when they lead someone to the way of salvation and teach the ignorant the precepts of God and the things which pertain to the way of salvation, or practice whatever other work of piety or charity; however many times they exercise any of the aforementioned works, we relax 60 days of the due penances howsoever enjoined in the customary form of the Church to them or others. We also will that if at other times some other indulgence has been granted to the aforementioned confreres perpetually or temporarily, whose duration has not yet ended, this Constitutions and Directory 32
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