How many Indulgences?

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I know there are many requistions to gain a plenary indulgence, but how many I can gain with one confession?( one indulgence each day, for how many days) until the next confession.
In other words, one cofession is sufficient for many plenary indulgences for how many days?
 
chinie19 said:
I know there are many requistions to gain a plenary indulgence, but how many I can gain with one confession?( one indulgence each day, for how many days) until the next confession.
In other words, one cofession is sufficient for many plenary indulgences for how many days?
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I dont really know anything about indulgences (and should make it a point to learn) but I dont think we should ever try to “stock up” on anything like this. Just be careful that you make it about prayer and the sacraments and not about increasing “get out of jail free” cards.
 
I have seen someplace that Confession within two weeks before or after the act which merits the indulgence satisfies the requirement. I think it was a reliable site, but can’t remember where I saw it.

I have also seen that monthly Confession suffices, but not so sure of the reliability of that.
 
chinie19 said:
I know there are many requistions to gain a plenary indulgence, but how many I can gain with one confession?( one indulgence each day, for how many days) until the next confession.
In other words, one cofession is sufficient for many plenary indulgences for how many days?
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Most sources I have seen state that one confession suffices for indulgences a week before and a week after the indulgence. Therefore, if you go to confession every two weeks, that’s probably the best bet.
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I dont really know anything about indulgences (and should make it a point to learn) but I dont think we should ever try to “stock up” on anything like this. Just be careful that you make it about prayer and the sacraments and not about increasing “get out of jail free” cards.
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I do think you should learn more about plenary and partial indulgences, since they are a great way to work away at our temporal punishment.

Getting as many indulgences as possible isn’t about “stocking up on get out of jail free cards”. It is about getting as many graces as possible so that we may repay the temporal punishment for our sins and go to Heaven as soon as possible after death.

The requirements for a plenary indulgence are difficult: one must do the indulgenced act, must say at least an Our Father and Hail Mary for the intentions of the Holy Father, must receive Holy Communion on that day, must go to confession a week before or after the indulgenced act is done, and, most difficult, one must be free from all attachment to sin.

What exactly does that last requirement mean? It means that at the time of the indulgenced act, we must not be at all attached, or attracted to, continuing the sins which we are prone to commit. This is extremely difficult, and it means that it is very, very rare to obtain a plenary indulgence for most of us, because we are all sinners.

Therefore, we do indulgenced acts as often as possible, praying for the grace that we may be in a state of fervor and love for God that we may be unattached from sin at the moment we do the indulgenced act.

If we do not meet the requirements for it to be plenary, however, wiping away all temporal punishment, it reverts to partial, and therefore our works at least partially work away at the temporal punishment we must pay.
 
Indulgences - General Conditions Answered by Colin B. Donovan, STL
The traditional norm for going to confession, receiving Holy Communion, and praying for the intentions of the pope, in order to gain a plenary indulgence, was 8 days before or after doing the prescribed work (counting the day of the work). In the Great Jubilee Year 2000, the Apostolic Penitentiary relaxed this norm to “several days (about 20) before or after the indulgenced act” (Gift of the Indulgence, General remarks, 5). The question often arises whether this norm of about 20 days applied only to the Great Jubilee Year Indulgence, or whether it remains in effect. In an answer to a question posed by this author, the Apostolic Penitentiary responded that this norm of “about 20 days” remains in effect, since it was contained under the “General remarks on indulgences,” and not under those specific to the Jubilee Indulgence.
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My question was because I want to gain indulgences for other dead people, not for me.
I went for confession yesterday and I did the other recuarmen. So if today i do the prayers, de communion … I also have to go to confession or the one that I did works for a new plenary Ind?
 
Interesting.

I always thought that earning an indulgence meant that you could pig out or eat meat on Friday.

Sounds like something completely different and much more complicated.
 
chinie19 said:
My question was because I want to gain indulgences for other dead people, not for me.
I went for confession yesterday and I did the other recuarmen. So if today i do the prayers, de communion … I also have to go to confession or the one that I did works for a new plenary Ind?
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Hello,

The one confession “works” for something like 20 days before/after. So, one confession can “work” for up to 20 plenary indulgences. You don’t have to go to confession for each indulgence.

You have to be in a state of grace in order to obtain any indulgence (see canon 996.1). So, if a person falls into sin, or is in a state of sin, confession is required before any indulgence can be gained, even if the person went to confession just a day before (for example).

Dan
 
chinie19 said:
I know there are many requistions to gain a plenary indulgence, but how many I can gain with one confession?( one indulgence each day, for how many days) until the next confession.
In other words, one cofession is sufficient for many plenary indulgences for how many days?
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This answer I give is a personal one. I believe that if the indulgence request is for the self, then one official confession per plenary indulgence should be strived for, BUT that if it is for others, namely the Holy Souls, then humbly and earnestly asking God in your prayers and in His Mercy to multiply His spiritual licence is usually a good call.

When offering indulgences for the Holy Souls [and the dying], by now the Good Lord must know I will seek Him, in His Mercy and Will, to multiply my feeble efforts.

Always strive to make each plenary indulgence ‘event’ to include a specific confession, but if you genuinely can’t reasonably make it within, say a week {given no additional mortal sins], then I feel that God is ready to accept ‘mitigation’.
 
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