What does it entail to be "free from attachment to sin, even venial sin?

[Joseph]

In this Year of Mercy, I looked up the requirement for gaining a plenary indulgence. A requirement is that one must be free from “attachment to sin, even venial sin…” This seems to point to a deep underlying attitude!

What exactly does it mean to be “free from attachment to sin,” and what does it entail, especially since we are all sinners? Is it possible for the average Catholic to be free from attachment to sin, if one has a predominant fault or habitual sin that one actively struggles to overcome or to avoid, yet falls into, and then confesses it? How does one attain freedom to attachment to sin, even venial sin?

Thank you for your answer!

Joseph

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

We have “attachment to sin” when we make little effort to overcome our sins even when we know they are wrong. I might know that I have a problem with anger, I might regret that I have a problem with anger but I also might not really desire to undergo the necessary change in life to overcome my problem with anger and therefore I have an attachment to the sin of anger.
We all have certain sins that we struggle with, sometimes when the sins seem to us to be venial or small we don’t feel the need to undergo the effort to truly overcome the habit of the sin. Either we don’t want to put in the work or we fear the consequences of changing the way we live (losing friends, status, etc). To obtain a plenary indulgence we need to shed ourselves of whatever attachment to sins that we have and truly try to overcome them with the help of God.