Partial Indulgences.

[Nelka]

Does anybody know how partial a partial indulgence is?

Would they be different from one another or different depending on how hard you attained the indulgence?

I remember seeing some with days and years on them but that has all stopped now hasn’t it?

Thanks.

 

[Pug]

The days/weeks/etc. designations are not in the current manual (enchiridion) of indulgences. Here is something that might help. You know how they have those matching donation plans in real life? Where what you do it matched by someone else? Currently partial indulgences are explained in a similar manner. Say it is a prayer you do. This is a helpful action all on its own, but it is “matched” as well. They have a more updated version available than the one I quote below, but this should provide the idea:
The faithful, who at least with contrite heart perform an action to which a partial indulgence is attached, obtain, in addition to the remission of temporal punishment acquired by the action itself, an equal remission of punishment through the intervention of the Church.

Someone let me know if this has changed in the last few years. I don’t have an updated copy yet!

 

[Bookcat]

Get the Manual of Indulgences from the USCCB

 

[Pug]

Get the Manual of Indulgences from the USCCB

Yes, I plan on it (I assume you were talking to me). I just haven’t ponied up the money yet for the latest edition, since I have an older one.