How to Pray Your Loved Ones Out of Purgatory This November --from the Catholic News Agency

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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/how-to-pray-your-loved-ones-out-of-purgatory-this-november

This article explains how we can gain an indulgence for souls in purgatory.

The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” explains what an indulgence is:

"An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church …
“An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin.”

1472 …every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified either here on earth, or after death in the state called Purgatory. This purification frees one from what is called the “temporal punishment” of sin. These two punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin…

1473 The forgiveness of sin and restoration of communion with God entail the remission of the eternal punishment of sin, but temporal punishment of sin remains…

1474 The Christian who seeks to purify himself of his sin and to become holy with the help of God’s grace is not alone. "The life of each of God’s children is joined in Christ and through Christ in a wonderful way to the life of all the other Christian brethren in the supernatural unity of the Mystical Body of Christ, as in a single mystical person."85

1475 In the communion of saints, "a perennial link of charity exists between the faithful who have already reached their heavenly home, those who are expiating their sins in purgatory and those who are still pilgrims on earth. between them there is, too, an abundant exchange of all good things."86 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others, well beyond the harm that the sin of one could cause others. Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.

 

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It should be noted that while the article is about the special indulgences for first week of November, we can get a plenary for a deceased person every day of the year by just doing one of the four indulgenced works that counts for a plenary in the Enchiridion, and fulfilling the other 3 conditions (confession within 20 days with state of grace and no attachment to sin, even venial sin; and communion done once per indulgence; and prayers for the Holy Father’s Intentions done once per indulgence).

The four indulgenced works that you can do year round for a plenary are as follows. You only have to do one, you can choose any one per day.

1. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for at least one half an hour
2. Devout reading of the Sacred Scriptures for at least one half an hour
3. The pious exercise of the Way of the Cross (at approved stations installed at a church, shrine etc)
4. Recitation of the Rosary in a church or public oratory or in a family group, a religious Community or pious Association

I note this because someone thought on another thread that the first week of November is the only time you can get a plenary for deceased people. You can get them all year round, just not more than one plenary per day. A lot of us do them over and over for our relatives because of concern that we ourselves do not fully fulfill the condition of being free of all attachment to sin needed to get the full plenary.

 

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Amen.


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