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wonderful innocence of life with an equal severity of penance; grant, through his merits and prayers, that we, who have not followed the example of his innocence, may imitate his practice of penance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
THE SIX SUNDAYS IN HONOUR OF ST. ALOYSIUS.
The six Sundays in honour of St. Aloysius, are kept in memory of the six years he lived in the Society of Jesus. To" nourish so salutary a practice, approved from heaven by many favours, as well spiritual as temporal," Clement XII., whose words these are, granted a Plenary indulgence on each of the Sundays, as his predecessor, Benedict XIII., had done for the feast, to all who keep these six Sundays.
In order to gain this Plenary indulgence, it is requisite that they should be kept consecutively, and that on each of them the faithful, being truly penitent, and having communicated, should employ themselves in pious meditations, or vocal prayer, or other works of Christian piety, in honour of the saint.
To gain the Plenary indulgence on the feast, besides confession and communion, a visit to the church in honour of the saint, and prayer for holy church, is necessary.