How I obtained a Plenary Indulgence, freeing my friend’s soul from Purgatory, while fulfilling my Sunday Mass obligation – all in about two hours.

By Doug Lawrence

You can do likewise, in only FOUR simple steps!

Many Catholic parishes have Saturday evening vigil masses that satisfy your Sunday Mass obligation. A good number of parishes also offer the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Saturday afternoons. Some parishes also offer the Sacrament of Reconciliation before or after Mass, on Sunday. That type of scheduling makes it relatively quick and easy to obtain indulgences.

Find a suitable Catholic parish
and then, proceed as follows:

STEP ONE:
Make A GOOD CONFESSION.
(Required)
(I did that on a Saturday, around 4 p.m.)

*** I spent the next hour praying, in Church ***

STEP TWO:
PRAY ONE ROSARY – While In Church.
(Required)
(I chose praying the Rosary in Church
from a list of many available,
Church-specified, indulgenced works.)

STEP THREE:
PRAY ONE OUR FATHER and ONE HAIL MARY
specifically, for the Pope.
(Required)

STEP FOUR:
Attend Mass and
RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION.
(I attended the 5 p.m. Saturday Mass
and received Holy Communion at about 5:40 p.m.)
(Reception of Holy Communion is required)

D O N E !!!
I fully expect that my deceased friend was out of Purgatory
and experiencing all the joys of Heaven
just moments, later!

Here’s how (and why) it works:

The Catholic Church, through the Pope and “The Power of the Keys” makes indulgences possible, for Catholics.

A Plenary Indulgence serves to obtain the immediate release of a designated holy soul from Purgatory, OR to remit any and all temporal punishment accruing from your own, already absolved/forgiven sins.

(A Partial Indulgence, typically results from a less than perfect attempt at obtaining a PLENARY INDULGENCE, or from the complete performance of Church-specified “lesser works”. A Partial Indulgence alone, is unable to fully accomplish the task of freeing a soul from Purgatory, although several Partial Indulgences, properly applied, may serve to do so.)

Indulgences may not be bought, sold, or applied to any living person on earth, other than yourself.

You must designate the recipient/beneficiary of your Plenary Indulgence in your personal prayer intentions. If the soul you are praying for doesn’t “need” the indulgence, God will see to it that another deserving soul in Purgatory receives it.

Unless you’re about to die,
you may obtain only ONE Plenary Indulgence, per day.

To obtain a Plenary Indulgence, you must also have NO ATTACHMENT TO SIN. (Not even venial sin.) That’s why it makes excellent sense to go right from the confessional into church, so as to successfully COMPLETE YOUR INDULGENCED WORK as soon as possible – with a pristine soul, no interruptions, no distractions and (hopefully) no opportunities to commit sin.

In my case, the particular, Church-specified “indulgenced work” was PRAYING THE ROSARY IN CHURCH. That was preceded by making A Good Confession (required) and followed up by praying an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the Pope (required) and receiving Holy Communion (also required).

There are many other Church-specified “indulgenced works” that may be accomplished, in order to obtain Plenary or Partial Indulgences, but (for now) we’re trying to keep this simple. Until you fully understand the process, simply do precisely what I described and you’ll be just fine.

Any Catholic (in good standing with the Church) can do this for deceased family members, friends, neighbors and other loved ones; even for those who passed away, many years ago!

For much more detailed and complete instructions
on the matter of Purgatory and Indulgences, click the link, below:

All About Sin, Death, Purgatory and Indulgences

Editor’s note: None of us are allowed to judge the state of a person’s immortal soul. That’s something left up to Jesus, alone. But, as fellow members of the Communion of Saints, we are permitted to make reasonable assumptions about their possible state in the afterlife and charitably do whatever we can, to help.

As this article clearly shows, helping to get holy souls released from Purgatory, through the grace empowered offices of the Holy Catholic Church, can be relatively simple to accomplish. And, nothing is ever wasted.

Read part two of this series, here.

Pondering the Nature of God

Christology contains another set of mysteries. Proceeding from the Father, the Son is the Father’s Word, the Father’s expression of himself. Some theologians say that the Son is the only Word which the Father ever had to utter. The words of the Nicene Creed attest that through the Son “all things were made.” All good things in the universe are expressions of God the Father, made through his one Word, the Son.

As perfect Persons, the Father and the Son love one another in perfect unity. Their love is so profound that it is another Person, the Holy Spirit. One RCIA candidate, an expectant mother, related to this point with enthusiasm. “Two people loving one another so much that a third exists – that makes sense to me,” she said.

Regarding the eternity of God, human logic fails to fully grasping this. God exists, not bound by time and space, as earthly beings must be. Time and space began when God created the universe. God transcends this time and space; from all eternity, there is God. Further, the Son and the Holy Spirit exist from all eternity. As long as the Father has existed, his self-reflection and self-expression, which is the Son, has existed. As long as the Father and the Son have existed, their Love, the Holy Spirit, has existed.

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Expert: “These riots we’re seeing (in China) are basically due to economic reasons. And COVID is just cover to impose restrictions on gatherings and protests.”

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Once again, Francis publicly contradicts the Catechism of the Catholic Church

From the Catechism:

CCC 2273: 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.

Francis:

“I do not say a person, because this is debated, but a living human being.”

Today’s question: Once saved, always saved – or not?

Question: Once saved, always saved – or not?

Answer: Nothing of the sort was ever taught by the Catholic Church. Non-Catholic Christian groups generally believe in “once saved, always saved”, but Catholics know that, until the moment that Jesus Christ personally decides to invite you into Heaven, the matter of eternal salvation remains open and in-play.

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This is what the West has become, and is in the process of becoming. Open your eyes.

By Rod Dreher at The American Conservative

This past summer, I met a young seminarian in England. We got to talking about what he did before he accepted a calling to the priesthood. He told me he worked in the creative office of a top London advertising agency (someone else confirmed this for me). He said that he was the only Christian in his office, but that there were no atheists. Really, no atheists? No, he said; “the New Atheism is dead with my generation.” So if they weren’t Christian and they weren’t atheist, what were they? He said every one of them was involved to some degree with the occult — and that two of them were open Satanists who defined Satanism as “living up to your highest human potential.”

These are the people providing many of the images that colonize the public square, and enter into the collective imagination. This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s the truth.

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A Christmas Story, revisited. The Old Man isn’t who I thought he was.

These major scenes paint a clear picture for us of a man who is seemingly off in his own world, somewhat oblivious to the goings on of his family.

At least, that’s what I used to think. I missed the other scenes. The small, seemingly throw-away lines that paint quite a different picture of The Old Man. Like the scene when Ralphie believes his father will kill him for breaking his glasses. 

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“When Christians forget why they are Christian, the community must fall into decline.”

Cardinal Robert Sarah, 77, gave a November 27 interview with EWTN’s Vatican program.

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Was Vindman always secretly working for Ukraine and the Bidens?

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Covid “news”- mRNA turns into DNA in 6 hours…

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Interesting…

A collection of previous posts on “Thanksgiving”

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The Philippines has rejected the recommendation of the United Nations Human Rights Council to legalize same-sex marriage. Also rejected abortion and divorce.

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Editor’s note: Something for which to be thankful!

Today’s “Gem” from Bob Stanley’s “The Catholic Treasure Chest”: Could the baby Jesus have passed on something to His mother that simply could not be left on earth?

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Ann Barnhardt sheds further light on the subject:

Jesus is STILL physically inside of Mary in a unique way. It was discovered just a few short years ago that immune cells pass from a pre-born child to the mother across the placenta. Not only do these immune cells, which are the child’s and thus carry the exclusive and complete DNA of the child, pass across the placenta, but they persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life.

A woman who has carried a son has immune cells with Y-chromosomes in her bloodstream that can now be filtered out of her blood and observed. Female children also pass cells to their mothers.

Thus, a woman truly does carry her children around inside of her, with their DNA coursing through her heart, for the rest of her life. That isn’t just a sentiment – it is a physiological fact.

Read more on this subject from Ann Barnhardt

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Denziger: The Sources of Catholic Dogma (PDF)

The Sources of Catholic Dogma by Denzinger is a great work which traces the development of doctrine and Dogma in the Catholic Church from its earliest times.

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Benedict XVI disguised the Vatican II absurdities with an air of doctrinally sound authority. Francis has exposed the Vatican II religion for what it really is.

By shamelessly embracing and parading the anti-Catholic absurdity of the Conciliar religion, Francis has done tremendous damage; but he has also allowed many souls to open their eyes to the reality which The Remnant and others have described for decades.

Francis deserves no accolades for this — but he is the fitting reward for our collective toleration of the errors of Vatican II promoted by Benedict XVI and his predecessors.

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Warning: ‘Christian Yoga’ is a contradiction.

Parishes should not promote a practice that uses New Age exercises and spiritualities that lead to pride and especially spiritual pride.

Invoking other gods may lead to idolatry and possession

“The asanas I practiced are spiritual exercises with invocations to other gods… It is idolatry. You cannot empty your mind during meditations and relaxation, leaving it open to everything, because this is very dangerous.

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What does the feast of the Presentation celebrate?

It celebrates the fact that the parents of Our Lady brought her to the Temple at the age of three and handed her over to live there for a long period as a virgin consecrated to the Temple, contemplating God exclusively.

What is the special beauty of this feast? Our Lady was the one chosen before time began, the Queen of Jesse from whom the Messiah would be born. The Temple was the only place in the Old Testament where sacrifices were offered to God. It represented, therefore, the only true religion. Our Lady being received at the Temple was the first step to the fulfillment of the promise that the Messiah would come to the true religion. It was the encounter of hope with reality.

When she was received at the Temple, Our Lady entered the service of God. That is, a soul incomparably holy entered the service of God. At that moment, notwithstanding the decadence of the nation of Israel, and even though the Temple had been transformed into a den of Pharisees, the Temple was filled with an incomparable light that was the sanctity of Our Lady.

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Poll: Majority Of Christians More Loyal To Political Party Than Faith

Nominal Paganism….

From the Christian Post:

New research reveals that a majority of pastors thinking about stepping away from ministry are concerned that Christians identify more with their political views than their faith, one of several factors causing church leaders to consider leaving their professions.

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Today’s behavior is what 50 years of happy clapping, guitars in church and aggiornamento do to people.

Not every child in the family should be at Mass

It has been, in saner times, a constant praxis of the Church that children should only be in church when they can behave and cause no disruption (this will, of course, depend from the degree of maturity and self-control of the single child). Also, it has been a constant praxis of the Church that, if there is no possibility to leave a child at home when attending mass, there is no mass obligation for the person who minds the child.

So, if papa and mama want to attend the Latin (and not only Latin) Mass but have a small, noisy toddler, or a baby, and there is no reasonable way to park the child by grandma on a Sunday morning, the mother can and should well stay home with the child until such time as the child can attend mass without disruption (perhaps, at times, papa could stay…

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