Author Topic: Plenary Indulgences (a tough ?) (Read 53473 times)

CampeadorShin · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2007, 01:46:58 PM »

Remember Magdalene, these people were declared Saints by the Church until after they died.

Miss_Fluffy · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2007, 09:26:25 AM »

I think St. Dysmas is a good example of someone who received a plenary indulgence. He was being crucified and declared that he deserved it. He must have given up all attachment to sin, and his only concern was that Jesus was innocent, and he had no concern about his own fate.

So in St. Dysmas, we have an example of a saint who lived a sinful life up until his last moments, where he was redeemed and went straight to heaven.

When I'm attempting to gain plenary indulgences, I always offer them to my deceased loved ones. Otherwise, I would feel they were worthless, as I know I'd ruin it within a matter of hours.

SimpleMan · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2024, 10:15:52 AM »

Quote from: Carolus Magnus on March 17, 2007, 03:53:10 PM

This does not show that they don't work what it demonstrates is how difficult it is to attain them.

Only God knows whether someone is of the necessary disposition needed to receive a plenary indulgence, As one becomes holier one does not cease to sin, if this was the case the Saints would not have made use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

What we should take from this is how far we have fallen and how a high a standard we are called to if we would only surrender ourselves completely to God.

Replying to a 17-year-old thread isn't something I'd normally do, but "Sacrament of Reconciliation" is yet another lame attempt by Newchurch to re-image everything pertaining to the Catholic Faith. It's a sentimentalistic, overwrought name that makes it sound as though the person who regularly goes to confession (but who does that anymore, outside of traditionalist circles?) has been some kind of hardened, long-lost prodigal who has to be brought back into the Church.

Just reading between the lines, as you so often have to do when dealing with Newchurch, it sounds like they are trying to recast confession into some kind of readmission ceremony for the fallen-away Catholic, and with a wink and a nod, telling regular practicing Catholics that you don't sin all that much, so you don't need to bother with it.

Yeti · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2024, 11:26:42 AM »

Quote from: SimpleMan on May 08, 2024, 10:15:52 AM

Replying to a 17-year-old thread isn't something I'd normally do

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Ladislaus · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2024, 11:29:59 AM »

This one just beat the necro-bump record by about 7 months. Other thread was from October 2007, and this one from March ... and CI appears to have been founded in August 2006.

https://www.cathinfo.com/the-sacred-catholic-liturgy-chant-prayers/october-month-of-the-holy-rosary/msg936062/#msg936062

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