Author Topic: How do Catholics best gain indulgences? (Read 310974 times)

cassini · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2025, 05:57:48 AM »

Quote from: Stubborn on October 02, 2025, 04:45:06 AM

I forgot about this.....

Extreme Unction

...Even after a long life of sin, if the Christian receives the Sacrament of the dying with the appropriate dispositions, he will go straight to heaven without having to go to purgatory. - Fr. M. Philipon; This sacrament prepares man for glory immediately, since it is given to those who are departing from this life. - St. Thomas Aquinas; It washes away the sins that remain to be atoned, and the vestiges of sin; it comforts and strengthens the soul of the sick person, arousing in him a great trust and confidence in the divine mercy. Thus strengthened, he bears the hardships and struggles of his illness more easily and resists the temptation of the devil and the heel of the deceiver more readily; and if it be advantageous to the welfare of his soul, he sometimes regains his bodily health. - Council of Trent

Cassini, call a priest and get it done.

Because my condition, even though will take time, is terminal
my SSPX priest said he was was allowed to give me the last rites, which he did.
I now get Holy Communion once a week in my home.
I seek ways of attaining indulgences as a way to keep me praying.
I love saying the seven sorrows of Our Lady.
There must be a blessed crucifix among those I have at home
I will find one and keep it near me.
I am so lucky to have a means of advice from the likes of you all above.
Thank you all.

St Giles · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2025, 09:42:02 AM »

Quote from: Mark 79 on October 01, 2025, 11:31:12 PM

Here is my conundrum—and to my thinking this is one of the most personally horrifying aspects of the anti-Papacies:

To the best of my knowledge, every means of gaining plenary indulgences requires that we "pray for the intentions of the Holy Father."

No Holy Father = No plenary indulgences.

If I am wrong on this point, I very much welcome correction. I would very much appreciate knowing that I can gain a plenary indulgence remitting the punishment due my own sins.

I think it is assumed his intentions are the universal intentions of all popes, or what should be.
These intentions are something like: the exaltation of the Church, uprooting of heresies, peace among Christian nations, propagation of the faith, & conversion of sinners.

Anyway, I pray for "the universal intentions of the Pope", and for a holy Pope, and that Pope Leo XIV be converted to Tradition, truth, and the Will of God.

If he's not Pope, that's his problem and God's problem. I'm just trying to fulfill my duty.

Christ didn't look like a miracle working powerful king during His passion, why would the Pope look normal during the Church's passion?

SimpleMan · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2025, 10:00:32 AM »

Quote from: Mark 79 on October 01, 2025, 11:31:12 PM

Here is my conundrum—and to my thinking this is one of the most personally horrifying aspects of the anti-Papacies:

To the best of my knowledge, every means of gaining plenary indulgences requires that we "pray for the intentions of the Holy Father."

No Holy Father = No plenary indulgences.

If I am wrong on this point, I very much welcome correction. I would very much appreciate knowing that I can gain a plenary indulgence remitting the punishment due my own sins.

If I am understanding correctly, during periods of sede vacante (whether those papal interregna acknowledged even by the post-conciliar Church, or if the sedevacantists are correct, during much longer ones), the Church's general intentions suffice. So far as I am aware, the faithful are not debarred from gaining plenary indulgences just because there is no Pope at a given moment in time.

Philip · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2025, 11:00:27 AM »

Quote from: SimpleMan on October 02, 2025, 10:00:32 AM

If I am understanding correctly, during periods of sede vacante (whether those papal interregna acknowledged even by the post-conciliar Church, or if the sedevacantists are correct, during much longer ones), the Church's general intentions suffice. So far as I am aware, the faithful are not debarred from gaining plenary indulgences just because there is no Pope at a given moment in time.

That is my understanding too. The pope's intentions were always given as the Exaltation of Holy Church, the Extirpation of heresies and Concord among Christian Princes.

Mark 79 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2025, 11:05:36 AM »

All respect due, however, various "understandings" aside, I'd be more convinced by credible Magisterium on the issue.

Didn't one of the "Popes" rescind the entire Raccolta?

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