What were indulgences used form

[Pathway2]

what where they used for. especially since this was a criticism of Martin Luther.

 

[Shakuhachi]

The story goes that they were sold (offered and promoted) to raise funds for the Church.

" if you make an offering to the Church you can get an indulgence that will help your loved one out of purgatory".

 

[Vico]

what where they used for. especially since this was a criticism of Martin Luther.

Indulgences are a current Catholic practice. Sometimes in the past they were not used properly.

Excerpt from Indulgentiarum Doctrina (1967) of H.H. Pope Paul VI:

8. The remission of the temporal punishment due for sins already forgiven insofar as their guilt is concerned has been called specifically “indulgence.”(37)
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The Magisterium of the Church has defended and illustrated this doctrine in various documents.(40) Unfortunately, the practice of indulgences has at times been improperly used either through “untimely and superfluous indulgences” by which the power of the keys was humiliated and penitential satisfaction weakened,(41) or through the collection of “illicit profits” by which indulgences were blasphemously defamed.(42) But the Church, in deploring and correcting these improper uses “teaches and establishes that the use of indulgences must be preserved because it is supremely salutary for the Christian people and authoritatively approved by the sacred councils; and it condemns with anathema those who maintain the uselessness of indulgences or deny the power of the Church to grant them.”(43)

https://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-...-vi_apc_01011967_indulgentiarum-doctrina.html

 

[Pathway2]

what would you say is an example of indulgence?

 

[Vico]

what would you say is an example of indulgence?

Here is one from the Manual of Indulgences, USCCB, 2006, p. 100, Grant 30:

1. A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who read the Sacred Scriptures as spiritual reading, from a text approved by competent authority and with the reverence due to the divine work, for at least a half hour; if the time is less, the indulgence will be partial.
2. If for some good reason a person is unable to read the Sacred Scriptures, a plenary or partial indulgence is granted, as above, if the text of a Sacred Scripture is listened to while another person is reading or if it is heard by means of a video or audio recording.

Another simple example is Grant 15:

• A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who for their personal edification devoutly spend time in mental prayer.

 

[Pathway2]

So indulgences are just reviving the person.

 

[Vico]

So indulgences are just reviving the person.

Purification.

Catechism of the Catholic Church (on Indulgences)

1472 To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence. Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life, the privation of which is called the “eternal punishment” of sin. On the other hand 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. A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain.83

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. While patiently bearing sufferings and trials of all kinds and, when the day comes, serenely facing death, the Christian must strive to accept this temporal punishment of sin as a grace. He should strive by works of mercy and charity, as well as by prayer and the various practices of penance, to put off completely the “old man” and to put on the "new man."84