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About Gaining Indulgences
« on: July 05, 2017, 02:17:33 AM »
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    •  No. 1471 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.”

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #1 on: July 06, 2017, 12:03:48 AM »
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    • No. 1479 adds, “Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishment due for their sins may be remitted.”

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #2 on: July 07, 2017, 05:01:42 AM »
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    • The decree reminds the faithful that to obtain a plenary indulgence it is necessary to observe the “usual conditions”:

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #3 on: July 08, 2017, 12:15:42 AM »
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    • Here are some of the principal concessions of plenary indulgences within reach of most Catholics.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #4 on: July 08, 2017, 04:13:51 AM »
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    • How to obtain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls
    From November 1-8: visit a cemetery and pray for the poor souls.
    On November 2: visit a church or an oratory and recite one Our Father and one Creed.
    A partial indulgence can be obtained any time by visiting a cemetery and praying for the poor souls. The following prayer is especially recommended:
    Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
    Six general rules for obtaining a plenary indulgence:
     

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #5 on: July 10, 2017, 12:57:47 AM »
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    • Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee.” (Matt. 9:2)
    The same that Christ says to the man sick of the palsy, the priest says to every contrite sinner in the confessional, and thus remits the crime or the guilt of his sins, and the eternal punishment, by virtue of the authority given him by God. But since sins not only bring with them guilt and eternal punishment, but also temporal and indeed spiritual or supernatural punishment, such as, painful conditions of the soul, as well in this world as in purgatory, and natural ones, as: poverty, disease, all sorts of adversities and accidents, we should endeavor to liberate ourselves from them by means of indulgences.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #6 on: July 12, 2017, 03:51:30 AM »
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    • What is an indulgence?
    It is a total or partial remission of the temporal punishment which man would have to suffer either in this or the next life, after the sins have been remitted.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #7 on: July 12, 2017, 11:43:34 PM »
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    • How do we know that after the remission of the sins there still remains temporal punishment?
    From Holy Scripture; for our first parents after the forgiveness of their sin, were still afflicted with temporal punishment. (Gen. 3) God likewise forgave the sins of the children of Israel, who murmured so often against Him in the desert, but not their punishment, for He excluded them from the Promised Land, and caused them to die in the desert. (Num. 14) Moses and Aaron experienced the same, on account of a slight want of confidence in God. (Num. 20:12, Deut. 32:51,52) David, indeed, received pardon from God through the Prophet Nathan for adultery and murder, (II Kings 12) still he had to endure heavy temporal punishment. Finally, faith teaches us, that we are tortured in Purgatory for our sins, until we have paid the last farthing. (Matt. 5:26)

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #8 on: July 14, 2017, 12:11:27 AM »
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    • Did the Church always agree with this doctrine of Scripture?
    Yes; for she always taught, that by the Sacrament of Penance the guilt and eternal punishment, due to sin, are indeed forgiven for the sake of the infinite merits of Jesus, but that temporal punishment still remains, for which the sinner must do penance. Even in the earliest ages she imposed great penances upon sinners for their sins which were already forgiven.
    For instance, murder or adultery was punished by a penance of twenty years; perjury, eleven; fornication, denial of faith or fortune-telling, by seven years of severe penance with fasting, etc. During this time it was not allowed to travel, except on foot, to be present at the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or to receive the holy Eucharist. If the penitents showed a great zeal for penance and sincere amendment, or if distinguished members of the Church, particularly martyrs, interceded for them, the bishops granted them an indulgence, that is, they remitted the remaining punishment either totally or partially.
    In our days, on account of the weakness of the faithful, the Church is lenient. Besides the ecclesiastical, the spiritual punishments which would have to be suffered either here or in Purgatory for the taking away of sins, are shortened and mitigated by indulgences through the treasure of the Communion of Saints.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #9 on: July 15, 2017, 01:49:29 AM »
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    • Has the Church the power to remit temporal punishments, or to grant indulgences?
    The Council of Trent expressly states, that the Church has power to grant indulgences (Sess. 25), and this statement it supports by the words of Christ. For as Christ protests: “Amen, I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven”; so He also promised, that whatever the Church looses upon earth, is ratified and loosed in heaven. “Whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.” (Matt. 18:18) Even an apostle granted an indulgence. In the person and by the power of Christ, that his spirit might be saved in the day of Our Lord Jesus Christ, (II Cor. 2:10; I Cor. 5:4,5) St. Paul forgave the incestuous Corinthian, upon whom he had imposed a heavy punishment.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #10 on: July 20, 2017, 02:01:47 AM »
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    • What is meant by saying, indulgences are granted out of the treasury of the saints or of the Church?
    By this is meant that God, by the Church, remits the temporal punishment due to sin for the sake of the merits of Christ and the saints, and supplies, as it were, by these merits what is still wanting in our satisfaction.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #11 on: July 20, 2017, 11:44:24 PM »
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    • What kinds of indulgences are there?
    Two; plenary and partial indulgences. A plenary indulgence, if rightly gained, remits all ecclesiastical and temporal punishment, which we would otherwise have to expiate by penance. A partial indulgence, however, remits only so many days or years of the temporal punishment, as, according to the penitential code of the primitive ages of the Church; the sinner would have been obliged to spend in severe penance. Hence the name forty days’ indulgence, etc. [cf. the Raccolta for details]

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #12 on: July 22, 2017, 12:03:17 AM »
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    • What is a Jubilee?1
    It is a plenary indulgence, which the pope grants to the faithful of the entire world, whereby all the temporal punishments of sin, even in cases reserved to the pope or the bishops, are remitted, and forgiven in the name of God, if the sinner confesses contritely and receives the Holy Eucharist and has a firm purpose of doing penance.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #13 on: July 26, 2017, 12:09:23 AM »
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    • What is required to gain an indulgence?
    First, that we should be in the state of grace, and have already obtained, by true repentance, forgiveness of those sins, the temporal punishment of which is to be remitted by the indulgence; and secondly, that we should exactly perform the good works prescribed for the gaining of the indulgence.

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    Re: About Gaining Indulgences
    « Reply #14 on: July 27, 2017, 02:00:06 AM »
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    • Do indulgences free us from performing works of penance?
    By no means: for there are few in the proper state to receive a plenary indulgence in its fullness, since not only purity of soul is necessary but also the inclination to sin must be rooted out, it therefore cannot be the intention of the Church to free us from all works of penance by granting us indulgences. She cannot act contrary to the word of Jesus: “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3)
    She rather wishes to assist our weakness, to supply our inability to do the required penance, and to contribute what is wanting in our penance, by applying the satisfaction of Christ and the saints to us by indulgences. If we, therefore, do not wish to do penance for our own sins, we shall have no part in the merits of others by indulgences.

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