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Offline StCeciliasGirl

Commuting penance?
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2013, 05:59:10 PM »
I've commuted an indulgence for others [conditionally, in Purgatory], and the priest said that was commuting. But commuting a penance ...might that mean doing penance for someone who can't do it? (Or would a priest give you that look for suggesting such a thing?)

I can think of at least one I'd have rather not done  :laugh1: Even after I did it, I wondered about it. But I guess it brought fruits. Later. The hard way.
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Offline shin

Commuting penance?
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2013, 02:29:36 AM »
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I was told once that penance given by the priest for you to do is more efficacious than penance done by your own wish.

So there's another reason to want more than a few drops in the bucket.


It is because you mortify your own will by doing some difficult task at the command of another. It also brings you back into the church most wonderfully by having you practice obedience after sin.


Yes, a good thought, I have to remember how necessary and valuable the mortification of the will is.
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