Plenary Indulgences and the meaning of Attachment to Sin

[Holly3278]

Hey, everyone. I am wanting to gain a Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday but one of the conditions is that one must be free from Attachment to Sin. Of course, one must be in a state of grace but does one have to also be free of venial sin or is it enough to detest all of one’s sins?

 

[Bookcat]

Note too that aside from the Plenary Indulgence offered by the Church - according to this Private Revelation there is the promise offered for the Feast (see the Private revelations about this).

 

[Bookcat]

Regarding the Plenary indulgence from the Church

There are several conditions.

The one you are referring to is detachment from all sin.

(not that one cannot have committed a recent venial sin- of course if one should repent though).

If one looks at some examples of grants of specific plenary indulgences (Apostolic P.) - it can perhaps be helpful -(remember they are all referring to the same condition).

Current Year of Consecrated Life: “with complete detachment from any sin”

From World Youth day: “in a spirit of total detachment from any sin”

From World Meetings of Families: “in a spirit of total detachment from any sin”

The one from the Birth of St. Paul:

“in a spirit of total detachment from any inclination to sin”

The indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday:

“in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin”

and the same for the one regarding the 40th anno of Vatican II

“in a spirit that is completely detached from affection for any sin”

 

[Nelka]

Does it mean sins that I have committed since confession as being attached or those that I would like to commit?

 

[Sirach2]

Does it mean sins that I have committed since confession as being attached or those that I would like to commit?

When going to confession, one prays the Act of Contrition, which says, “I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin.”

It is the heart’s intention never to willingly offend God by any sin whatsoever, even though, being human and weak, we may soon fall into venial sins (hopefully, not mortal). It is the act of the will and the intention of the heart to avoid recommitting pet sins indulged in previously, that is the essence of “detachment” from sin.