Here's a true treasure from the Treasury of Indulgenced Prayers, 1944: https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-674.shtml (https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-674.shtml) I prefer the traditional method of stipulating indulgences in days of penance. Suppose the temporal punishment of our sins required 10 or even 100 years of the hardest penance. Imagine how difficult it would be to finish this, yet we would be bound to do so, or else probably face an even greater punishment in purgatory, e.g. 100 or 1000 years. So when there are Indulgences of 300 days or of 7 years, the meaning is, the Indulgence granted, by the Mercy of God, and the Treasury of Merits of the Church, is equivalent to 300 days or 7 years penance. The time in Purgatory we would have to suffer, because Divine Justice would probably be more severe, is probably even more than 7 years. But by making use of indulgences, we can partially or even entirely pay off that debt of temporal punishment.
There are many indulgences, even plenary, to be gained at the hour of death.
PART XII.
FOR A HAPPY DEATH
Jesus, Joseph, and Mary, I give you my heart and my soul.
Jesus, Joseph, and Mary, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Joseph, and Mary, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
(7 years every time each one is said)*
From sudden and unprovided death, O Lord, deliver us.
(300 days every time said)
O Lord, my God, I now, at this moment, readily and willingly accept at Thy hand whatever kind of death it may please Thee to send me, with all its pains, penalties, and sorrows.
(7 years every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death to all those who at any time of their lives, with sincere love toward God and with the usual conditions, make this kind of act)
The new indulgences didn't cancel the old. The old ones still apply. Rosary and Way of the Cross were earlier plenarily indulgenced and still are such. 30 minute Eucharistic Adoration and 30 minute devout Scripture reading are two new plenary indulgences.
Fr. Paul O Sullivan encourages all to gain indulgences frequently and apply them to the Holy Souls. As we know, the usual conditions for indulgences are (1) sacramental Confession. (2) Holy Communion (3) Prayers for the Holy Father. For Plenary Indulgences, deep detachment from sin is required. That means the Indulgenced work should be done purely out of love for God, as the work above explains.
From "read me or rue it": Read Me or Rue It: https://www.ewtn.com/library/SPIRIT/READRUE.TXT (https://www.ewtn.com/library/SPIRIT/READRUE.TXT)
"IV. The recital of the Rosary (with its great indulgences) and making the Way of the Cross (which is also richly indulgenced) are excellent means of helping the Holy Souls.
St. John Massias, as we saw, released from Purgatory more than a million souls, chiefly by reciting the Rosary and offering its great indulgences for them.
V. Another easy and efficacious way is by the constant repetition of short indulgenced prayers [applying the indulgence to the Souls in Purgatory]. Many people have the custom of saying 500 or 1,000 times each day the little ejaculation, "Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee!" or the one word, "Jesus. " These are most consoling devotions; they bring oceans of grace to those who practice them and give immense relief to the Holy Souls.
Those who say the ejaculations 1,000 times a day gain 300,000 days Indulgence! What a multitude of souls they can thus relieve! What will it not be at the end of a month, a year, 50 years? And if they do not say the ejaculations, what an immense number of graces and favors they shall have lost!
Here's the problem with enlisting indulgences as "partial" instead of in number of days: 7 years Indulgence and 300 days Indulgence are not the same, anyone can see the former is greater, but both are now mistakenly just stated to be "partial" without further explanation.
The Indulgence is granted by the Church's Authority as being the equivalent of a certain number of Days of Penance. Days of Penance are not the same thing as Days in Purgatory. But God's Justice is much stricter than we think; it's likely the latter will be much larger.
If we have only 10 or less years of Penance to do here on earth, we may have to do 100 or more in Purgatory if we have neglected it. Very difficult, especially if God doesn't allow anyone to help us, in His Justice, as we never helped the Holy Souls. But by Indulgences gained with the intention of loving God more and assisting the Suffering Souls, we can gradually pay off both their debt and our own.
10 Plenary Indulgences from the Treasury of Indulgenced Prayers, 1944: https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-674.shtml (https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-674.shtml)
1. May the most just, most high, and most adorable Will of God be in all things done, praised, and magnified forever. (500 days every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death for those who have frequently said the prayer during life and who have, in addition, received the Sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion, or are at least contrite and have, if possible, pronounced the Name of Jesus or have devoutly invoked Him in their heart and have accepted death patiently from the hand of God in payment for sin)*
2. Jesus! (300 days every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death to those who during life frequently invoke the Holy Name)*
3. My Lord and my God! (7 years every time said when the Host is elevated during Mass or when it is solemnly exposed. Plenary indulgence once a week under the usual conditions)
4. Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed. (500 days every time said thrice. Plenary indulgence under the usual conditions if said thrice every day for a month)
5. Behold, O good and sweetest Jesus, before Thy Face I humbly kneel, and with the greatest fervour of my soul I pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope, and charity, with true contrition for my sins and a most firm purpose of amendment, whilst I contemplate with great sorrow and affection Thy five wounds and ponder them over in my mind, having before my eyes the words which long ago David the prophet spoke in Thy own person concerning Thee, O good Jesus: 'They have pierced My hands and My feet, they have numbered all My bones. (10 years every time said before a representation of Christ crucified. Plenary indulgence if, after Confession and Communion, the prayer is said before a representation of the Crucifixion and prayers are offered for the intention of the Pope)
6. O most merciful Jesus, lover of souls, I beseech Thee, through the agony of Thy most holy Heart and through the sorrows of Thy Immaculate Mother, wash in Thy Blood the sinners of the whole world who are now in their agony and will die today.
Amen.
V. Heart of Jesus once in agony.
R. Pity the dying.
(300 days every time said. Plenary indulgence under the usual conditions if said thrice daily'but at three distinct times during the day'for a month)
7. Mary!
(300 days every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death to those who have frequently invoked the name of Mary during life)*
8. Hail, O queen, mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us. And after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
(5 years every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death to those who have frequently said it during life)
9. We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions in our necessities, but ever deliver us from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
(5 years every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death to all who have frequently recited it during life)*
10 Angel of God my guardian dear, To whom His love commits me here, Ever this day (or this night) be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.(300 days every time said. Plenary indulgence at the point of death if the prayer was frequently said during life)*"