Posted on 07/09/2013 10:22:45 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To help encourage prayers for a spiritually fruitful World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, the Vatican announced July 9 that Pope Francis authorized a special indulgence for those who attend the event's liturgies and prayer services or follow along online in the proper spirit of prayer and contrition.
Pope Francis decreed that World Youth Day participants can receive one plenary, or full, indulgence a day if they meet the usual conditions. World Youth Day runs July 23-28; the pope arrives July 22.
An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment a person is due for sins that have been forgiven.
The conditions necessary for receiving a plenary indulgence include having recently gone to confession, receiving the Eucharist and offering prayers for the intentions of the pope. The faithful must also carry the proper spirit of being "truly repentant and contrite" and participate in the gathering's sacred events and "pious exercises" with prayerful devotion.
Those who are "legitimately prevented" from being physically present in Rio may also obtain the indulgence as long as they meet the same prayerful and "spiritual and sacramental conditions" as well as participate "in spirit" in the sacred liturgies and prayer services via television, radio or "new means of social communication," the decree said.
The decree, signed by Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro, head of the Vatican office that deals with indulgences, said a partial indulgence is also available to all Catholics who, no matter where they are, offer prayers with the pope for young Catholics.
"With a contrite spirit, they will elevate fervent prayers to God, concluding with the official World Youth Day prayer" as well as prayers to the patroness of Brazil, Our Lady of Aparecida, and other saints, asking that they intercede on behalf of all young people to be "strengthened in the faith and live a holy life," it said.
The cardinal also asked priests around the world to make themselves available to hear the confessions of those who want the indulgence and to encourage public prayers for the success of World Youth Day.
The pope is set to hear the confessions of some of the young pilgrims in Rio's Quinta da Boa Vista Park July 26.
Me neither. Yesterday a Catholic told me that Catholics didn't write the Bible!
Wow ... that one will him cost double time in purgatory.
Thanks
The whole purgatory business never made sense to me.
It would be, if it wasn't for those pesky other doctrines.
It is a very nice feeling to know I can't screw up so bad that God will turn his back on me. He might Chastise me sure, but my ticket to Heaven is punched, paid for by the Blood of Christ.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Christ also sais this: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-26.htm
Yes, but in context that was part of a parable of reconciling with your brother rather than being thrown in prison. It's not really applicable to salvation.
Nor is it applicable to sin. For if we must pay the "full penny" for sin", then we must suffer the second death and Christ's sacrifice is of no effect.
It's just good advice to make good on your debts and don't get thrown into prison.
If the sin if forgiven, there's nothing left to be punished for.
If there's punishment for a sin, then it hasn't been forgiven.
Do Catholics actually think through what they are taught and choose to believe?
Do they understand at all what forgiveness means?
IOW, they have to be good enough to be accepted.
The Catholic church is the perfect breeding grounds for developing a spirit of rejection.
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Colossians 2:13-14 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Isn't it amazing? If we confess our sins, we are forgiven. Period.
"ECDBT" Aren't those the cards that gas stations advertise they accept?
heh ...
trying to come up with words for the “C” and “D” ...
exactly. It is wrong in so many ways
Go ahead and sin but feel bad about it later. lol
Is that what you believe?
ECDBT.
Based on how I see virtually every Catholic I know lives, that sums it up pretty well.
1) The Nicene Creed.
2) A link to the Holy Bible.
3) A link to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
None of these things contains your belief that one may "Go ahead and sin but feel bad about it later. lol."
Your belief is very strange, and not Christian.
I cannot comment on the sort of people with whom you choose to associate. I can comment that your alleged observation is completely inconsistent with my observation of Catholics.
"The usual conditions" means repentance and confession of sin, asking the mercy of God and with a firm purpose of amendment, i.e. to correct the wrongs done --- if it is in your power---- and, with the help of God , to sin no more and avoid the near occasions of sin.
If a person thought he was pulling the wool over God's eyes by confessing without repentance and asking for indulgence without any intention of truly turning away from sin, that person would be a fool; and he would be offending God yet again with his trifling or sacrilegious attitude.
I think any reasonable person could see this.
Then why do people in the roman church go to confession every week????
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