LISTEN to this Beautiful Chant - Tantum Ergo to Gain a Plenary Indulgence on Holy Thursday when Christ Instituted the Eucharist!

How to Gain a Plenary Indulgence on Holy Thursday of the Triduum. A plenary indulgence is remittance for temporal punishments for sin and can reduce or eliminate our time in purgatory. They can be applied to the souls in purgatory. Holy Thursday is the day that Christ instituted the Eucharist. 

Holy Thursday

1. “Down in Adoration Falling” (Tantum ergo) (Roman Breviary) PLENARY INDULGENCE when recited or sung on Holy Thursday - Down in adoration falling, Lo! the Sacred Host we hail, Lo! o'er ancient forms departing Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail. To the Everlasting Father, And the Son Who reigns on high With the Holy Ghost proceeding Forth from Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might, and endless majesty. Amen. ℣. Thou hast given them bread from heaven. ℟. Having within it all sweetness. ℣. Let us pray: O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament left us a memorial of Thy Passion: grant, we implore Thee, that we may so venerate the Sacred Mysteries of Thy Body and Blood, as always to be conscious of the fruit of Thy Redemption. Thou who livest and reignest forever and ever. ℟. Amen. 

 The text comprises the last two verses of the medieval hymn Pange Lingua, written by St. Thomas Aquinas. lyrics in Latin of Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui: Et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui: Praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. Genitori, Genitoque laus et iubilatio, Salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio: Procedenti ab utroque Compar sit laudatio. Amen.

2. A PLENARY INDULGENCE is granted to those who visit the Most Blessed Sacrament for at least one half hour ( together with the General Rules of a plenary indulgence, see below)

GENERAL RULES for ALL INDULGENCES:

To acquire a plenary indulgence it is necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to fulfill the following three conditions:

Sacramental confession (within 8 days), Eucharistic Communion, and Prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.

It is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be absent.

The condition of praying for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff is fulfilled if we pray one Our Father and one Hail Mary; however, every faithful Christian is granted the faculty to pray with any other formula, according to his piety and devotion. The plenary indulgence is a gift of God, through the Church, which is granted to nourish us with grace that strengthens us on our journey of faith.

Sources: https://www.amicidilazzaro.it/index.php/6-ways-for-plenary-indulgence-in-holy-week/

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/here-are-plenary-indulgences-available-during-holy-week