Indulgences questions

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What is mwant when by “Indulgences may be applied to the souls detained in purgatory by way of suffrage…” What is :suffrage" exactly? Prayers, good works???

Also if we offer a Rosary up for the soul(s) in purgatory, do we also gain same indulgence for ourselves too?

Also in reference to an indulgence…“the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar” is mentioned…is this the Mass or Communion?
 
This explains it.

oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Indulgences

By a plenary indulgence is meant the remission of the entire temporal punishment due to sin so that no further expiation is required in Purgatory.

A partial indulgence commutes only a certain portion of the penalty; and this portion is determined in accordance with the penitential discipline of the early Church.

To say that an indulgence of so many days or years is granted means that it cancels an amount of purgatorial punishment equivalent to that which would have been remitted, in the sight of God, by the performance of so many days or years of the ancient canonical penance. Here, evidently, the reckoning makes no claim to absolute exactness; it has only a relative value. God alone knows what penalty remains to be paid and what its precise amount is in severity and duration.

Finally, some indulgences are granted in behalf of the living only, while others may be applied in behalf of the souls departed. It should be noted, however, that the application has not the same significance in both cases. The Church in granting an indulgence to the living exercises her jurisdiction; over the dead she has no jurisdiction and therefore makes the indulgence available for them by way of suffrage (per modum suffragii), i.e. she petitions God to accept these works of satisfaction and in consideration thereof to mitigate or shorten the sufferings of the souls in Purgatory (see Purgatory).
 
There are very specific rules for indulgences.

For your reference shelf:

“Manual of Indulgences” from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

“The Handbook of Indulgences — Norms and Grants” … Catholic Book Publishing Corp

Both are available via Amazon.
 
clfire said:
What is mwant when by “Indulgences may be applied to the souls detained in purgatory by way of suffrage…” What is :suffrage" exactly? Prayers, good works???

Also if we offer a Rosary up for the soul(s) in purgatory, do we also gain same indulgence for ourselves too?

Also in reference to an indulgence…“the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar” is mentioned…is this the Mass or Communion?
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Thank you for your posts…but can no one answer the specific questions I asked…Does :suffrage" mean prayers, good works …or what? If I say the Rosary and offer it up for daepartd souls in Purgatory, do I also gain the indulgence for myself at the same time? Regarding " Sacrifice of the Altar" is this to mean going to mass or receiving Holy Communion (re: indulgence gained) ??
 
suffarage, that cross to bear that we pick up, and without complaint, without grumbling, we move forward and offer up to God…

Its the child of an oddity of nature that born to a mother of ill character, and the mother passes away leaving a child of orphaned nature that the other children come to taught and attack in their distighished nature of superior to. yet the child perserverse and struggles through life never asking of others of anything, but accepts the fate and edures through life with no question of their suffurage…

suffurage, that standing agaisnt the evils of the world, defiant to the political corrrect, and then the long standing shunning of by others in their denial of the evils they commit, their lack of apprecition.

Job is the poster child of sufferage, for he experienced all the greatness, lost it all, but in the sufferage didint curse or fail to God…

suffurage is to endure the being wronged by others, to turn that to God praying to Gods mercy and justice, but to never revenge or to scorn or judge those that do wrong to Us…

sufferage, the opposite of revenging others. to forgive that we might be forgiven.
 
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suffarage, that cross to bear that we pick up, and without complaint, without grumbling, we move forward and offer up to God…

Its the child of an oddity of nature that born to a mother of ill character, and the mother passes away leaving a child of orphaned nature that the other children come to taught and attack in their distighished nature of superior to. yet the child perserverse and struggles through life never asking of others of anything, but accepts the fate and edures through life with no question of their suffurage…

suffurage, that standing agaisnt the evils of the world, defiant to the political corrrect, and then the long standing shunning of by others in their denial of the evils they commit, their lack of apprecition.

Job is the poster child of sufferage, for he experienced all the greatness, lost it all, but in the sufferage didint curse or fail to God…

suffurage is to endure the being wronged by others, to turn that to God praying to Gods mercy and justice, but to never revenge or to scorn or judge those that do wrong to Us…

sufferage, the opposite of revenging others. to forgive that we might be forgiven.
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What was the name of the Dominican priest who traveled about Europe in the Middle Ages selling indulgences?
 
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