Holy Week Indulgences

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wjp984 said:
I don’t think it matters what age one is those three conditions are almost impossible as not ever sinning mortally again is hard enough but being detatched from venial sin is nearly impossible.
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No, one of the conditions is NOT ever doing another mortal sin. But you are required to confess and be pardoned for all previous sins, and have a resolution to not sin again. But if you do sin again, despite your best efforts, your best resolutions; but feel contrite for your failure…yes, you can confess etc.

As for “attachment”, I have not been able to figure it out too much myself.:confused: I think it has to do with not being fully sorrowful. Like you repent of your sexual conduct, but still hold on to a pleasent memory or two of the encounter. Or something like that.

Me, I’ll do the best I can and hope I get that Plenary Indulgence for the Poor Souls. If not, I can hope for a Partial Indulgence for them.
 
ya, my guess is that in Purgatory the suffering will be letting go of the things that seem so pleasurefull in our life but that have nothing to do with what actually matters for Heaven. I mean, even now, although there are a few exceptions such as saints and future saints like Mother Teresa, how many of us could actually give up our luxuries and lifestyles that we enjoy and take up a lifestyle like the saints?
 
mommyof4 said:
And a final note on indulgences:

To acquire a plenary indulgence it is necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to fulfill the following three conditions:
sacramental confession,
Eucharistic Communion, and
prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.
It is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be absent.

If the latter disposition is in any way less than perfect or if the prescribed three conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence will be partial only, saving the provisions given below in Norm 34 and in Norm 35 concerning those who are “impeded.”

** The three conditions may be fulfilled several days before or after the performance of the prescribed work; it is, however, fitting that Communion be received and the prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff be said on the same day the work is performed.**
A single sacramental confession suffices for gaining several plenary indulgences; but Communion must be received and prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff must be recited for the gaining of each plenary indulgence.
The condition of praying for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff is fully satisfied by reciting one Our Father and one Hail Mary; nevertheless, each one is free to recite any other prayer according to his piety and devotion.
The norms regarding plenary indulgences, particularly the one stated above in Norm 24, 1, apply also to what up to now have been customarily called “toties quoties” “as often as”] plenary indulgences.
An indulgence cannot be gained by a work, to which one is obliged by law or precept. unless the contrary is expressly stated in the grant; one, however, who performs a work which has been imposed as a sacramental penance and which happens to be one enriched with an indulgence, can at the same time both satisfy the penance and gain the indulgence.
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I am so confused. Maybe you can help me out.

On Page 80 in the Hand Book of Indulgences, it states:
A partial indulgence is granted the Christian faithful who reads sacred scripture with the veneration due God’s word and as a form of spiritual reading.The Indulgence will be a plenary one when such reading is done for at least one half hour.

Can you explain what " who reads sacred scripture with the veneration due God’s word and a form of spiritual reading " is.

And… Why go through all the above, if all you have to do is read the bible for a half hour?
 
jdmcke said:
And… Why go through all the above, if all you have to do is read the bible for a half hour?
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Mommyof4 can amply answer you, I know very well:), but your last sentence there caught my eye. There are some general rules about indulgences that are implied or understood as included when they say “the indulgence will be a plenary one when such reading…” Those general rules for plenary indulgences apply for scripture reading as well as to the Holy Week indulgences as well as to Rosary indulgences, etc. To receive the plenary indulgence for reading scripture for half an hour, you must also go to confession, receive communion, pray for the intentions of the pope, and meet the other general conditions, like for example, you must be a Catholic and have the right spiritual disposition in your heart of being free from attachment to sin, even venial. They only state the general rules once, and they are assumed to apply for all plenary indulgences, unless expressly stated otherwise, like for the one when you die.
 
Pug said:
Mommyof4 can amply answer you, I know very well:), but your last sentence there caught my eye. There are some general rules about indulgences that are implied or understood as included when they say “the indulgence will be a plenary one when such reading…” Those general rules for plenary indulgences apply for scripture reading as well as to the Holy Week indulgences as well as to Rosary indulgences, etc. To receive the plenary indulgence for reading scripture for half an hour, you must also go to confession, receive communion, pray for the intentions of the pope, and meet the other general conditions, like for example, you must be a Catholic and have the right spiritual disposition in your heart of being free from attachment to sin, even venial. They only state the general rules once, and they are assumed to apply for all plenary indulgences, unless expressly stated otherwise, like for the one when you die.
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Thank you for the wonderful explanation. 🙂 Couldn’t have said it better.
 
wjp984 said:
so hypothetically you only need one plenary indulgence in your entire life to get into Heaven right away to avoid Purgatory. And the other way around. If you don’t plan on dieing anytime soon the plenary indulgence will surely be nullified within a day or so after one starts to sin again venially at least. I don’t understand the concept of indulgences since it seems like they go to waste since they will be nullifed soon after.
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Any amount of time off purgatory is never a waste. So even if you start to re-accumulate sins, the temporal punishment for sins prior to the plenary indulgence would be removed. We have so many opportunities for indulgences, you could get them every day (provided the conditions are met)!

However, I always offer them for the souls in purgatory since they are in immediate need of them. I trust someone to offer indulgences for me after I’ve died. 😉
 
i copied and pasted some info about the divine mercy plenary indulgence from this link
for anybody who wishes to obtain the divine mercy indulgence but isnt sure how

vatican.va/roman_curia/tribunals/apost_penit/documents/rc_trib_appen_doc_20020629_decree-ii_en.html

**Three conditions for the plenary indulgence **

*And so the Supreme Pontiff, motivated by an ardent desire to foster in Christians this devotion to Divine Mercy as much as possible in the hope of offering great spiritual fruit to the faithful, in the Audience granted on 13 June 2002, to those Responsible for the Apostolic Penitentiary, granted the following Indulgences: *

a plenary indulgence, granted under the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of Supreme Pontiff) to the faithful who, on the Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, in any church or chapel, in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin, take part in the prayers and devotions held in honour of Divine Mercy, or who, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed or reserved in the tabernacle, recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you!");

A partial indulgence, granted to the faithful who, at least with a contrite heart, pray to the merciful Lord Jesus a legitimately approved invocation.

For those who cannot go to church or the seriously ill In addition, sailors working on the vast expanse of the sea; the countless brothers and sisters, whom the disasters of war, political events, local violence and other such causes have been driven out of their homeland; the sick and those who nurse them, and all who for a just cause cannot leave their homes or who carry out an activity for the community which cannot be postponed, may obtain a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday, if totally detesting any sin, as has been said before, and with the intention of fulfilling as soon as possible the three usual conditions, will recite the Our Father and the Creed before a devout image of Our Merciful Lord Jesus and, in addition, pray a devout invocation to the Merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you).

If it is impossible that people do even this, on the same day they may obtain the Plenary Indulgence if with a spiritual intention they are united with those carrying out the prescribed practice for obtaining the Indulgence in the usual way and offer to the Merciful Lord a prayer and the sufferings of their illness and the difficulties of their lives, with the resolution to accomplish as soon as possible the three conditions prescribed to obtain the plenary indulgence.
 
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