Posted on 05/20/2015 8:17:11 AM PDT by Salvation
“Indulgences are the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven” (q. 312).
Ping!
This article should be about Bill and Hillary. Their “Foundation” has become the secular grantor of indulgences.
LOL!
But indulgences in the Catholic Church are quite different than that.
But if a penalty follows from the internal logic of the offense itself, how can it be remitted?
By God changing the person so that the consequence no longer follows.
Jimmy hits another home run.
Worth noting: "Both partial and plenary indulgences can be applied either to oneself or to the departed by way of prayer (norm 3)." There are souls who would have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them if people who believed did not. It's important to remember these souls, and pray for them every day. Also, I think we do a great injustice to people we love if we assume they went straight to Heaven and don't pray for them. Only God knows, and we can't take that chance when we could be helping them.
The souls pray for us, and that's a beautiful thing.
"A special plenary indulgence is granted for the dying. This is normally included in the last rites, but in the event a priest is not present, the Church grants a plenary indulgence to the faithful "at the point of death, provided they are properly disposed and have been in the habit of reciting some prayers during their lifetime" (norm 18)."
I never knew that. My Mom died unexpectedly. I'll never stop praying for her, but that part was something of which I was unaware, and it's a great comfort to know. Thank you for the post. 🌟
Well put!
Thank you, friend! Nice to see your name there! God bless you!
A decree of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences dated 18 December, 1885, and confirmed the following day by Leo XIII, says:
The Heroic Act of Charity in favour of the souls detained in purgatory consists in this, that a member of the Church militant (Christifidelis), either using a set formula or simply by an act of his will, offers to God for the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory works which he will perform during his lifetime, and also all the suffrages which may accrue to him after his death. Many Christians devoted to the B.V. Mary, acting on the advice of the Theatine Regular Cleric Father Gaspar Olider, of blessed memory, make it a practice to deposit the said merits and suffrages as it were into the hands of the Bl. Virgin that she may distribute these favours to the souls in purgatory according to her own merciful pleasure.
Olider lived at the beginning of the eigtheenth century.
The Heroic Act is often called a vow, yet it partakes more of the nature of an offering made to God and to Mary, and it is also, unlike a vow, revocable at will. (Excerpt)
Wilhelm, J. (1910). Heroic Act of Charity. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved May 20, 2015 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07292b.htm
“I believe many misunderstandings and confusion comes from Church leaders thinking it is only them who can rightly interpret what Jesus told us.”
As G. K. Chesterton wrote of the Catholic Church, “There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.”
So you see, it’s not that only the Church *can* “rightly interpret what Jesus told us.” After all, whatever God wills *can* happen.
It is rather that only the Catholic Church *does* offer the most complete and correct interpretation available from mortal man. The various protestant denominations all reject some correct interpretations, or have adopted incorrect doctrine, and are therefore less comprehensive sources.
Catholic writings form an incredible resource, more than anyone could study and integrate in a single lifetime. I couldn’t possibly hope to get through Summa Theologica alone in the years remaining to me, and that work, monumental as it is, is but a crumb to the whole.
Never have I failed to find a satisfactory, or perhaps inspiring, answer to any question.
“And Jesus is still the only mediator between a believer and God.”
What is a mediator? If someone prays for me, is that person a mediator?
What is a mediator? If someone prays for me, is that person a mediator?
1Timothy 2
5 For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
Never have I failed to find a satisfactory, or perhaps inspiring, answer to any question.
Gawd, do scoffers make their lives more miserable by scoffing.
“Being contented with what you believe is a good thing I guess.”
My, how insulting.
I am reminded of something Thomas Sowell wrote: “It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.”
“I don`t know, I am only saying what Paul believed on this particular issue.”
If you don’t know what a mediator is, you couldn’t possibly know what Paul was saying, nor whether your thinking is in concord therewith.
My, how insulting.
What I meant was that it may be a good thing to be contented with what you believe.
I have not had that experience.
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