Plenary Indulgences Explained - Ask a Marian 

i'm praying for souls in purgatory. we all owe it to them to get them out

"Extra Credit" .... I'm a teacher. Trust me, students LOVE extra credit. Great way to think of indulgences. Thanks, Fr. Alar.

I like the “extra credit” analogy! Praise be to God that it is available!!

Grateful, Fr. Chris, for another excellent teaching. I’m praying for the graces necessary to develop a spirit of mortification, detachment, humility, acceptance and complete surrender to God’s Will. ♥️🕊💙🙏🌹

What is sad about this, is the fact that many souls don’t find out about the great importance of plenary indulgences until they are dead, and it’s too late. Thank God for the people who do believe and can help those who did not

Your teachings are awesome. I’m 60 years old and just learning about indulgences. I will look for your other video on this. Your teachings are awesome , I have seen a few. Please keep them coming and give us the hard truth. Thank you and may God always Bless You

Clear! Clarity is Charity!

Thank you very much Father for the gift of this teaching! 🙏🙌💖

Thank you Father Chris I always love to learn from you with your enthusiasm it's very enjoyable not to mention educational. God Bless you Father 🙏 See you Saturday!

Praise the Lord 🙏🏻🙏🏻📿📿🙏🏻🙏🏼🌹Praise the Lord. you are a hiding place for me, you surround me with cries of deliverance.Good morning fr I ask you to pray for my mother. Maria Hien and her sister Maria Y Ben are in good health. full of Mary's grace and overcome the corona virus pandemic. I ask you for my father John bt. Thien is also in good health and is not infected with corona virus like me. I also ask you for my Russian study record to be approved and get a study abroad permit by the end of this year 2021. I also ask you to pray for Maria Y Ben to soon repay the debt🥰🥰🥰🙏🏻❤🌹♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Thanks father! Please, all. Pray for and my family. God love You!

THANK YOU 🙏🏼 FATHER ALAR! This was explained last evening in my Catholic Faith weekly classes by a Monsignor but I couldn’t understand it! 😩 So WOW suddenly here it is! Amazing!!!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼🕯💫

Thanks Fr Chris for helping catholics understand our faith. God bless

THANKS....!!! FATHER CHRIS God bless..... U ♍🌹✝️

Thank you father! You and your fellow Marians are helping many to understand our faith and leading us to redemption, mercy and salvation. May God reward you richly.

Thank you Fr.Chris.Blessings from our Lord be upon you always.

Thank you Father Chris!

Father Chris is always such an amazing instrument of GOD containing the grace for pointing us to the most explained with comprehension. GODbless you always Fr. Chris. always waiting for a Saturday talk from you . 🙏❣️

Thank you Fr. Chris!

Fr Chris you are a blessing

Thank you for that… I may be able to, but still learning!

Thank you Father 🙏

I thank you Fr. Chris for explaining plenary indugence. It gives is hope in this difficult world where we live to know the ways we work to gain plenary indulgence. I’m scared to go to hell so avoid mortal sins, but not sure if I’m good enough to always be free of venial sins. It’s good to know there are ways we can do to obtain partial plenary indulgence🙏❤️🕊📿💐🎶

Thank you, Fr. Chris. Great explanation. Look forward to your Saturday talk. God bless.

Terrific explanation!! Will be a great topic for Explaining the Faith series!!! I’m gonna need a “hall pass” tho to miss class on Saturday :) will catch the replay. Going to hear Scott Hahn speak at St Paul’s in Leesburg.

Amen❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏thank you father Chris🙏

God bless you, Fr. Alar!!!

Thank you Fr

Thank you Father. God bless

God remove all evil save me from myself my selfish sin ❤

God Bless you Father!!!

Loved this explanation. I had a listen to it while taking a break from spending so far two and a half hours cleaning up a good amount of the bedbug spray from most of the floor. Where the spray has to stay on the floor is on all of the tiles that are in front of the baseboards. Just to let you know that when I was finally sprayed as a precaution for bedbugs around 12:25 pm I had a friend drive me to the post office to mail my House Blessing registry. I meant to mail it sooner but when I put it away in one of my desk drawers, when getting my apartment ready for last month's spray I thought I lost because I found it again just yesterday. So hopefully it will get to you before November 12. I don't know about you, Fr. Chris, but I have to the rest of my apartment cleaned up considering that I've been awake since 4:30am.

🙏 Thank you Father, I’ve learned so much.

Thanks so much, Fr. Chris, for expounding INDULGENCES. Love all the benefits we get from it, especially the PLENARY. Though challenging (PLENARY), worthy to do and have it. Love this pious show. Always learning about our Catholic faith.

Thank you Father Chris! Great explanation indeed. I just watched the Purgatory earlier. I invited some friends and they all went!😇 We really loved it. So happy to see the Shrine and the Marian Fathers and your talk after the credits. As always, you were so amazing!:))

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THANK YOU FATHER CHRIS FOR EXPLAINING OUR CATHOLIC RELIGION. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY DYING BROTHER. HAVE MERCY ON HOLY SOULS. FROM NORTHERN IRELAND.

God gives me so many graces is it greedy for me to ask for more grace?

Thank you

Thank you for this Father Chris

i am waiting for your video.

During Lent this year we were granted an Indulgence from abstaining from meat one Friday for being members of a St. Joseph Parish. This is the year of St. Joseph as declared last December by Pope Francis.

Hi Fr Chris. Thank you for your sharing. I have a question... do we need a priest alongside with us when we do our indulgences? Thanks in advance.

That was so clear Father. I had not understood the plenary indulgences until now. Thank you! It is amazing to think how many souls can be saved this November. Beautiful...🕯️🙏🏿🔥

I try to go to confession as often so I can get the indulgences and offer them for people in purgatory even if I get partial is better than none. I think of it this way, the more holy souls from purgatory ascend to heaven the more saints who can pray for us here. God need saints as much as we do. This will make Him happy.

First heard about it in the movie Dogma.

Fr Chris, is spiritual communion considered valid fulfillment of one of the conditions? As protection from CoVid, we attend masses online for now. Very much look forward to the Oct 30 episode!

You are my Shepard on this journey on Earth Father Joseph Alar, lead the way! I’m marching right behind you, even if I have to grab ahold of your chasuble! I’m not letting go!

We must not forget in order to gain any indulgence be it plenary or partial we must ask for them form an intention. Prayer and of course we must be in the state of Grace to gain them .this is good to do in the morning when many of us do the morning offering prayer .🌅⛪🌅

Father Chris, I go to church every day but a few of us who do not receive hand communion are refused Communion on our tongues so we make a spiritual communion. When any priest friend celebrate a private mass and we attend we do receive Holy Communion on our tongues but not daily.

Full Plenary indulgence sureness to Heaven's yeahhaa,.. Thank you God🙏👑🌟☀🤸‍♀

Our priests of the Society of Saint Peter explained that because souls in purgatory have no attachment to sin, not even venial sins, so when we offer the plenary indulgence to a soul in purgatory they get the full plenary indulgence then go straight to heaven.

Thank you….continuing to fall in love with Our Lord…(love..act of Will) ❤️‍🩹🙏🏾

What does it mean to have no attachment to sin and how do we do that?

Thank you Fr Chris beautiful explanation. I had to do a replay. Busy last night didn't want to miss the last show of Purgatory. Most of my friends are asking if they will release the movie again. Will you? God bless you your family and everyone ❤️🙏

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I have some questions about plenary indulgence: For example, a man committed several mortal sins in a month. Then, he decides to make a valid sacramental confession. After the confession, he decides to stay in the Blessed Sacrament for 30 minutes, pray the intentions of the pope, receive Jesus in Holy Communion. His intention is to get plenary indulgence. When he goes out of the Adoration Chapel, a car hits him and dies immediately. Questions: 1) Will he go straight to heaven if he dies after getting the plenary indulgence? 2) If he has gained a lot of plenary indulgences in his lifetime but he dies in a state of mortal sin, what will happen to his soul? 3) The Church says that we can get a lot of plenary indulgences (especially for daily communicant and those who frequently confess), if one plenary indulgence is needed to get us to heaven, why do we need to strive to get more indulgences?

“When you where dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive in Christ. He forgave yes ALL our sins, having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us. He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.” Colossians 2

FrC, do we actually have to mention that I'm doing X set of prayers + Confession + Communion to gain plenary indulgence for me or a relative? Coz with all the prayers and daily Mass that I do, it's hard to keep track. Or if I do all of yhe sbove daily/frequently, GAngel can keep track for me? I'm not a naturally organized, logical person. 😁😇

Can one confession in 20 days suffice for all the other days one did a plenary indulgence prayer/action ? Or does it need to be one confession for each indulgence prayer/action ?

Of course indulgences can be obtained and given to the Blessed mother, for the souls in purgatory!

Does a spiritual communion work for this? How do we use the plenary indulgences for those in purgatory, without know the souls.

Father, when we pray the Tosary and offer it for the Pope's intentions, do we still have to add the extra Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be?

Interesting

Indulgence we need a detail an hour two or three

So a person must have plenary indulgence even thought he confess long time ago or every time confess his /her mortal sin.

thanks! this was helpful.

Collecting baseball cards, stamps, books.....and now plenary indulgences? I can't stand hot weather, therefore how can I stand purgatory? I need this! (lol) Father, on October 30, can you please address the following: 1) If I go to Confession on a Saturday and for six (6) straight days after, i receive Holy Communion, pray for the Intentions of the Holy Father, and read 30 minutes of Scripture will I have earned six (6) plenary indulgences? Will that one (1) Confession "stick" for those 6 days, granted that I was in a state of grace? 2) Plenary indulgence(s)....how much is enough and how much do we actually need? Can one actually "collect" them? Can one actually lose them? 3) Lastly, can you please explain, with a number of examples, on what "detachment of sin" means? What is difference between, just not doing the sin anymore, versus "detaching" from it? I am confused with the word "detach" in this form. I look forward to the October 30th video, because I learn so much from you and you are very easy to understand. Thanks in advance! -VN

I don’t know about Moses hitting this rock twice I have to read about that I just know that Moses was a stutter that’s what I learned in school could you please help me

Is this in our Catechism? Where?

Can someone who is divorced and now has a civil marriage (for 20. + years) go to confession?

In the biblical examples of David and Moses, the temporal punishment was limited to the temporal realm. There is no indication that the punishment continued after their deaths.

Even with this definition, it still admittedly scandalizes me. I’m having trouble reconciling this and harmonizing this with other beautiful Catholic teachings like sharing in the sufferings of Christ, redemptive suffering, and participatory suffering. Also for others that have had severe temporal punishments this side of heaven (akin to David losing his son) how is that fair compared with someone who has a plenary indulgence.

This is so sad

Just a question. I live alone but I say the Rosary with the help of RU-vid. Is the Priest saying the Rosary count as another person?? Thank you for your time. 🙂

Can a person who has made a total consecration to the Blessed Mother (St Louis De Montfort) gain plenary indulgences for themselves? I understood that all our acts, prayers, reparation and fasting (including indulgence) belong to her to use as she desires. I am happy to give them to her, but I am just curious if my understanding is correct. Thank you for your teaching Fr Chris.

I have a question though I'm not certain how best to phrase it. The world tells us that "venting" our problems is healthy. But we as Catholics know that this is still gossip. How can we break that cycle? How can we stop ourselves? Say for example you have a loved one who keeps leaving the front door unlocked at night because he or she just can't be bothered to pay attention to what they are doing. And you vent about this to a co-worker on a regular basis. How do you stop yourself? (I'm using a totally made up example. Because the action of the person being vented about isn't the issue.) 2nd Question could you maybe have Father Chris do a big talk on Gossip?

I’m a little confused. So you have to receive Communion the day of your indulgence? The how can you do a Plenary indulgence everyday ?

I disagree. In the gospel of st Luke 16:19-31. The story of Lazarus teaches us that after death nothing more can be done to be saved if they were not while alive, as of our purification the bible tells us than (in Romans 3:22, 1st corinth 1:30, Romans 1:7, 2nd Corinth 5:21, and many more allover the bible) that righteousness, purification, cleansing and any kind of acceptance to God comes from Christ alone and no actions taken by man in achievement of this will ever be acceptable to The Righteous and Most Holy God of Israel.

Father Chris...just saw the new movie on purgatory....think there was a big miss in it.....nothing was said about the biggest get out of jail free way to avoid temporal punishment...the divine mercy novina!....was wondering how that was missed....we were all remarking how something as important as that novina was not referred to in a movie on purgatory....yikes....big opportunity missed...anyway, see you at the shrine we hope next wk, we will be visiting from southern cal

Read revelation 17! Come out of her says the Lord!

Thank You so much Fr Chris!Excellent Teachings!Wow thanks God for having Priest like You!we learn a lot from You!Father Chris , i just want to ask if the MIC Bible available here in the Philippines?thank you! God Bless You all!🙏🌹❤️ Keep safe!!!

When you say pray for the Holy Father intentions that means Pope Benedict XVI The True Pope !!!

Fr. Chris, when I pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, I incorporate the Stations of the Cross with it, like this: For the sake of His sorrowful passion, Jesus is condemned to death, have mercy on (the people that I pray for) and of the whole world. Then as I go on, I just start the Stations of the Cross again. Is this okay to do? I am blessed to be able to do it everyday and I have been doing it for years. Thank you for the advise!

Father have you heard about the BOOK OF TRUTH by Maria Divine MERCY what can you say about those private revelations about the upcoming end of age, preparation for the second coming of Jesus

Absolutely no scripture backs up plenary indulgences or purgatory when taken in context. Nothing unclean will be in heaven and nothing you can do will ever make you clean. It is Jesus who makes you clean and it is only through Jesus , no one else. John 14:6 9:11 praying for the dead ? Come on read the context as the scripture at no time says to pray for the dead . Judas prays for the dead so that they may attain godliness but why did God slay them in the first place? Read the entire context not this cherry picked verse. Forgiveness of sins happens here not in any afterlife. Heb 9:27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, Do you see die once and then a clean up before judgement?

precisely where was purgatory or rosary mentioned in bible or did Christ utter it .

Father Alar, who is the patron of the gluttonous, the people who struggle with food issues?

The consequence of sin is death.. that is it. There is no "oh you lied to your pastor so that's a year of lashings and THEN you go to the father", the consequence of sin is DEATH. Spiritual DEATH. Jesus washed us CLEAN in His name, if you enter judgement day while remaining in HIM, then you are ALREADY CLEAN. Catholics put these things together in their own minds trying to understand God and how the afterlife makes sense- in turn, making them think they know better than God. THE PUNISHMENT FOR SIN IS DEATH. No "indulgence" can save another human being from DEATH. Jesus PAID THE FINE OF SIN, WHICH IS DEATH. EVE ATE OF THE FRUIT AND LIED TO GOD, WHICH IS PUNISHED WITH DEATH.

I'm sorry but I still don't get it when it comes to indulgences , there's just something that doesn't feel right about it . I do get about going to confession ,,,,, didn't Our Lord Jesus say the price has been paid , meaning he died for our sins , and the idea of confession is to go with a contrite heart and tell Jesus I'm sorry for sinning and for hurting him by my sins , I receive forgiveness for those sins but yet have to pay in death again ,,,,,, wouldn't Jesus know when I die if I'm truly sorry for offending him , and yet with one word he could cleanse my soul totally and as he said make it as white as snow , but would rather send me to a place where I'm to be chastised and I soppose tortured,,, according to some definitions ,,,,, all this after I just spent a lifetime suffering in this valley of tears, with possibly all types of emotional problems and physical problems ,,,,,,, I somehow just can't believe he would do that to me , it would be as if I'm being stabbed in the back by my father ,,,, Ive been stabbed in the back by disloyal friends, cheating girlfriends, lying neighbors ,etc ,,,,, and now the only person I thought I could trust, the one that I love and thought would never ever hurt me or lie to me would send me to suffer in torment,,,,,, Does anyone see anything wrong with this ????? Again , personally I don't believe Jesus would do this to me ,so this is the reason I have problems with these things called indulgences .

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No more payment for sin is needed, nor will be needed: JESUS said, "It is finished", and "gave up the ghost". Thus, there is no more payment or sacrifice for sin. JESUS said, "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man comes to The Father, but by ME." I'm not trying to be mean, nor hostile, but you and The Pope are leading people into eternal damnation. So, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read The Gospel of John; then, read The Epistle of Galatians.

JESUS took the punishment for Our sin, so we no longer need to suffer and saying the rosary or praying to Mary is totally against the teaching of scripture. “There is one Guide and one mediator between God and Man the man Christ Jesus.”

one scripture, Go and sin no more. Protestants like to corner Catholics on this point.

"If you choose to take it 💉or choose to give it 💉to your children you are participating in evil"... Mother Mariam (of the Lamb of God), religious sister

When I pray rosary on line from the National Shrine, Do I get plenary indulgence?

Tomorrow will be "National Holyday" called "Day of Dead Ones". On that very day the peoples' obligation to visiting the cemeteries and clean the falling leaves from the graves. The visitors carrying flowers and light candles on the graves. The visitors ALL PRAYING for the dead relatives! The huge graveyards are covered by Flowers and the safely placed candles...like millions of little stars lighting on Earth!

The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin. He has made atonement for us (Romans 5:11). No need for purgatory my friends :)

Your religion is false. You teach Salvation by works, and you will have to answer for that one day. Search the Scriptures for their true meaning, and repent of your sins of trusting in human actions to save you. Do not continue to be like the Pharisees and value your tradition over the words The Lord God Almighty has spoken. Trust in The Lord Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection alone has made Salvation possible for all humanity.‭‭ Ephesians 2:8 [8] For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God

Most convulted teaching in the whole realm of theology. Christians are punished by their sins Jesus took the punishment for our sins. If you have been baptized and it is fully manifested then you leave your sin loving nature in the grave with Christ. You may sin but sinning will make you miserable and you will seek freedom from Jesus to get it out of your life.😊❤