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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: How do Catholics best gain indulgences?
« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2025, 08:45:37 PM »
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    • I find these to be credible ...
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    THE PROMISES MADE BY OUR LORD TO THOSE WHO HAVE DEVOTION TO THE WAY OF THE CROSS.~Jesus to Brother Estanislao

    • I promise eternal life to those who pray, from time to time, the Way of the Cross.
    • I promise them my greatest graces.
    • I will deliver the faithful from purgatory on the first Tuesday or Friday after their death.
    • I promise them a special glory in Heaven.
    • I will grant them everything they ask through praying the Way of the Cross with faith.
    • I will grant them the remission of all their sins, even if they be as scarlet; if they be more than the grains of sand on the seashore and the stars in the heavens, all of them will be erased by the Way of the Cross.
    • I will preserve them from sudden death.
    • I promise them my special protection; my hands will always be open to protect them.
    • I will bless them at each Way of the Cross and my blessing will follow them everywhere on earth, and after their death, in Heaven for all eternity.
    • They will be assured of being joined to the Supreme Choir Of Angels.
    • I will give them the grace never again to commit a mortal sin for I will give them the grace never again to separate themselves from me.
    • I will lift all power from the devil at the hour of death that they may repose tranquilly in my arms
    • I will make of each one of them a living ciborium in which it will please me to pour my graces
    • I will give them a special drought from the fountain of My Deity.
    • As I am nailed to the cross, so also will I always be with those who honour me in making the Way Of The Cross frequently.


    BROTHER ESTANISLOA

    Brother Estanisloa was born in 1903. At an early age, he entered the Christian schools of charity in Bugedo, Spain. Here he took vows of regularity, perfection and pure love. In October 1926 he offered himself to Jesus through Mary. Soon after this heroic donation he fell ill and was obliged to rest. He died in the odor of sanctity in March, 1927 of tuberculosis. According to the master of novices he was a privileged soul who received messages from heaven. Confessors and theologians recognize these supernatural facts. His spiritual director asked him to write down the promises made by Our Lord to those who have devotion to the Way of the Cross as written here.

    Let us also not forget about the Sabbatine Privilege, basically endorsed by several Popes.

    If one cannot do the Office of Our Lady (not everyone can in theit state of life), one Pope (can't recall which one) permitted any confessor to commute the requirement for that.
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    Offline Miseremini

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    Re: How do Catholics best gain indulgences?
    « Reply #31 on: October 02, 2025, 09:22:25 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on October 02, 2025, 08:40:34 PM
      But the Stations of the Cross is one that remained plenary after Montini's (putative) changes, and so those will have their effect either way.  I tend to make the Stations for the intention of converting members of my family, and for other sinners ... but also meet the other conditions (Communion, Confession, these prayers for the intentions of the Holy Father) and then offer the indulgences themselves to Our Lady to do with as she pleases.
    Where do you get your information.  The Stations of the Cross are the one exception to the rules of gaining a plenary indulgence.  Confession and communion are not required.... in fact you gain an additional plenary indulgence if you do receive.
    From the 1957 Raccolta:
    "A plenary indulgence as often as they perform the same:  ANOTHER plenary indulgence if they receive Holy Communion on the same day, or even within a month after having made the Stations ten times."

    No edition of the Raccolta ever stated they were a requirement.  A state of grace though not mentioned is required that's why the stations start with the Act of Contrition.
    If confession and communion were required how could people at sea or in prison or the seriously ill be eligible to gain the same indulgences.
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    Re: How do Catholics best gain indulgences?
    « Reply #32 on: October 03, 2025, 06:16:21 AM »
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    • Short Way of the Cross attached. From the Pieta Prayer book. 
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    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse
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