28-3-1940: Decree by don Leopoldo Eijo y Garay granting indulgences to those who kiss the wooden Cross in the Jenner residence in Madrid.
From don Alvaro: “In Barcelona, in 'El Palau' centre, there was a big Cross. People started saying that we were doing human sacrifices, crucifying people. So our father ordered for the Cross to be changed by a small one. He also said: “But we can’t take away the Cross, because it is something essential in our life”. By seeing so many attacks to that devotion of ours, he asked don Leopoldo to grant indulgences. He hesitated saying he can’t grant indulgences for just a kiss, so he suggested that an aspiration be said. Our father said that it could be whichever aspiration each and everyone wanted, but recommended the exclamation -like a renewed resolution- “serviam!” ("I will serve!") or if we remembered, some of those aspirations by St. Andrew: “O bona crux, diu desiderata...”. Afterwards, St. Josemaria got from the Holy See, a grant for indulgences for offering to God manual or intellectual work. When the Holy See conceded the indulgences, the condition of saying an aspiration was removed.
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| The Cross at "La Chacra" conference centre, in Argentina |
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