08/11/2025
By spreading this knowledge, you are also working out of charity to help someone else release a soul from the prison of Purgatory, and for this reason, it is an indulgence-based act in the Jubilee Year!
During the Jubilee, until January 6, 2026, for the first time in the history of the Church, it is possible to gain two plenary indulgences per day (instead of the usual maximum of one) by performing an act of charity for the souls in Purgatory and receiving Holy Communion a second time.
There is no minimum waiting time between the two Communions. The only requirement is that the second reception occurs during a Mass (or Eucharistic celebration) in which you fully participate. Code of Canon Law #917:
“A person who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist can receive it a second time on the same day only within the eucharistic celebration in which the person participates…” An authentic interpretation by the Pontifical Commission (approved by St. John Paul II on 11 July 1984) clarified that “iterum” (again) means exactly a second time, not a third or more (except as Viaticum for the dying, per Canon 921 §2).
The faithful who are unable to receive indulgence (the sick, the elderly, prisoners) can obtain the indulgence by uniting themselves spiritually and offering their sufferings.
It is fitting to offer all indulgences, partial or plenary, for the holy souls in Purgatory, reserving the last indulgence of one's life for oneself, in order to avoid being consumed by Purgatory, or without reserving anything if one dies with the Sabbatine Privilege of the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (the soul is released from Purgatory by Our Lady on the first Saturday after death).
