The provisions required for the indulgences
The steps required to receive an indulgence is primarily the presence of grace in the soul and charity. How could it be the penalty for sin forgiven when the sin itself persevere? This is the reason why the Church begins by inviting the faithful to the true contrition, and for the plenary indulgence, even to the confession and communion. Also asks them to work personally to offset the penalty of their sins, and one of conditions that predispose to indulgence is the fulfillment of a work of penance. The great concern of the Church, which appears at this point, is not so much as to grant an indulgence to take this opportunity to lead the faithful to the fervor of charity . The value of indulgences to remit the penalty is great, "says St. Thomas, but the value of work soddisfattorie when their fulfillment makes love grow, is incomparably more valuable (49). These truths, if they Memories, light the conduct of the Church. E 'first the desire to enhance reconciliation and charity in the Christian people that leads to announce the indulgences, to hold the Jubilees.
plenary indulgence and indulgence
The treasure of indulgences can not be reached by the Supreme Pontiff, nor can he open the doors through which this can flood the treasury, who by virtue of an exercise right and reasonableness of its jurisdiction. In other words, the holding of an indulgence, to be valid, presupposes a just and reasonable cause. And in relation to the importance of this cause, the indulgence offered to the faithful may, with the intention of the Church, be partial or plenary (50).
If it is partial, as could be measured, according to the intention of the Church, if not in reference to the work of penance on which that indulgence was attached? "By adding a partial indulgence to a prayer or pious work, the ecclesiastical authority granted to the faithful, the Church's treasure, a remission before God of the temporal punishment in proportion to what the fulfillment of that prayer or charity he's already received tantam remissionem adhuc ipse coram Deo poenae temporalis quantam previous eadem vel jam acquirit pious works' (51).
At this point you should pause for a moment. By granting the indulgences that, as valuable they are, represent only a spiritual secondary, the desire of the Church, we have said, first of all to step up reconciliation and charity in the Christian people. It follows then, that you will grant indulgences taking into account the pace at which the charity is growing in us down here. It progresses with a smooth motion and not continuous, but in the way that advances the life in plants and animals, before accumulating reserves, and then progressing to shock pulses (52). The partial indulgences may correspond to the daily acts of charity. Those plenary more rare moments when, with the strongest and most fervent acts of love, charity climbs to a higher level.
The plenary indulgence, fully capable of liberating the soul from the temporal punishment of their sins and placing them immediately in the sky, can be obtained plenary - this is evident - only if it is free from all attachment to sin venial, it presupposes a degree of purity eminent signs of burning charity, to which the approach of death can have but to which access is difficult in our weakness. "Be careful, says St. Catherine of Genoa: the confession and contrition required for a plenary indulgence are difficult things to completion" (53). Most often, it seems, a plenary indulgence is not purchased that partially . Similarly, and this is also clear, as partial indulgences are received in proportion to the dispositions of the penitent. Of these dispositions God and the Church is not a judge.
Source: CARD. CHARLES JOURNET
theology of indulgences
original title of Theology DES INDULGENCES (from "Nova et Vetera", 1966, II, Fribourg)
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