The Truth About Indulgences 

Indulgences, one of the most important yet misunderstood aspects of Catholic tradition.

Any Catholic taking their faith seriously will probably quickly realize they're a very rare breed, particularly if you're a convert and you realize just how off-the-path your friends and family are; if this is you, realize you're actually in a very privileged position and do everything you can to become a machine that cranks out indulgences. If nothing else, your reward will be great in heaven. Personally, I've concecrated myself to the Blessed Virgin, and have given her full permission to use any graces or merits I've earned, however meager, as she sees fit. I know she can present my prayers to her Son in a much better way than I ever could, and like at the Wedding at Cana, can direct my efforts so they bear more fruits than anyone could've even imagined.

Thank you for this video. The explanation of how fallen Catholics would visit the martyrs in prison, in order for the martyrs' suffering to be applied to them as penance, is beautiful. I had never heard of that, but it makes so much sense. In a similar way, I have always tried to get close to any holy people, especially the consecrated religious or priests. I tell them about my troubles and ask them to pray for me, knowing that they perform far more acts of penance than I do, hoping that their penance may be applied to me and my loved ones. This is how the communion of the saints works; the strong work for the weak, all of us bound together in love.

I'm so glad you included that Onesiphorus was dead when St. Paul prayed for him. This is an excellent video I have longed for years to make. I'm glad you had the grace to produce it.

Your videos are clear, concise, and easily understood by the laity, which make them a treasure. Thank you, and God bless.

It makes absolute sence the devil would attack indulgences everything luther does seems to be diabolical inspired

If you're a devout Catholic (is there another kind) you're already doing indulgences, whether you realize it or not. Once you do realize it, however, the rewards will be seen immediately in ways you could have only hoped for. Edit: I'm talking about spiritual rewards, not $64M planes.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

PRAYER OF ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT A Prayer which would release 1,000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said. Our Lord told St. Gertrude the GREAT that the following prayer would release 1,000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said. Recommendations: Pray it at least twice, to at least release twice as many souls! After the prayer, ask the Holy Souls to pray for your intentions. "Eternal Father, I offer thee the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory. -Amen" Our Lady said that if we pray the prayers "we'll deliver so many souls, so many souls!" "The Holy wounds are the treasure of treasures for the souls in Purgatory." BIBLE - 2 Machabees, Chapter 12. Verse 46: "it is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." An indulgence, applicable ONLY to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted when the faithful devoutly visit a cemetery and pray for the departed.

The rosary is an indulgence tool par excellence you get a plenary when prayin to n a chapel a partial anywher else also by kissing the rosary and prayin part of the ave maria right up to fruit of thy womb jesus gets u an indulgence so does raising the mind in a difficult time saying a short mental prayer

Can you do a video on Extreme Unction?

Its other porpose is to Inspire us on as the catachism says the church likes to inspire its children on

Hi, great video as always! Whould you mind making a video about The Apparition of The Most Holy Virgin of La Salette? I saw a lot of more "modern" catholics denying that Our Lady said that Rome will lose faith and become the seat of the antichrist. On the internet there are a lot of mixed answers. I always found your videos most reliable one when it's about an objective view maybe you can explain it.

What can separate us from the love of Christ? The Church is the Body of Christ. We are His members. What, then, is the Protestant rejection of prayer to the saints and prayers for the dead but a rejection of that reality? What? Does death separate us from Christ?

"indulgences" are a medieval heresy against Matthew 5:26; 12:32 and the Sacred Canons which DeClare and DeFine Purgatory.

This all seems like a work based faith

What is considered penance, any suffering someone undergoes, or is it specific things?

I believe an event regarding the Fatima , an Angel spoke : PENANCE PENANCE PENANCE.

So are indulgences suppose to make reparations for sin to lessen time in purgatory? Sounds like if you don't get any indulgences in your lifetime you'll have to make up for all your sins in purgatory. Is that right? Also do you have to be catholic to receive an indulgence, or can you be protestant and God can just give you one when you do an act that counts for an indulgence?

So, was self-flagellation an example of those more arduous indulgences back in the old days? And, for that matter, was it ever as awful as Hollywood always makes it look? I can't count how many movies and shows I've seen that featured someone whipping himself until he was a bloody mess.

So does Catholicism teach that purgatory is a physical location like Sheol/Hades? And is it literal fire that the soul is purified by?

The state of the dead, according to the word of God. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof *thou shalt surely die* {Genesis 2:17} Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? ... So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their *sleep* O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, *until thy wrath be past* that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, 👉till my change come. ... His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. {Job 14:10, 12-14 & 21} And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in *my flesh* shall I see God. {Job 19:26} Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, *nor knowledge nor wisdom* in the grave, whither thou goest. {The Preacher 9:10} Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; *in that very day his thoughts perish* {Psalm 146:3-4} Then said his disciples, Lord, if he *sleep* he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." {John 11:12-14} ... Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection 👉at the last day. Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet *shall* he live:" {John 11:24-25} But go thou thy way till the end be: for *thou shalt rest* and stand in thy lot *at the end of the days* {Daniel 12:13} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him *should not perish* but have everlasting life. {John 3:16} And *the serpent said* unto the woman, *Ye shall not surely die* {Genesis 3:4} Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down *in the midst of the stones of fire* {Ezekiel 28:14} ^ (satan always turns the tables on God, for he is the father of lies.) The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. *Who* among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? *He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil* {Isaiah 33:14-15} If anyone errors in their understanding of this doctrine of the dead, then they will in no way be led to the understanding of the truth, for it will be a stumblingblock unto the decernment of spiritual things, including soilterology and eschatology.

It can break you're bad karma which you owe temporaly in other words god was going to break my leg this coming month as a temporal punishment due to my sin but it was averted as I did penence got an indulgence and offered it for my temporal sin I paid my price it can be done for the dead as in the book of macabees we see the main character make reparation for the dead

I’m Catholic. I have a serious question. How many indulgences were generated by Jesus when he died on the cross?

Doesn't Christ's sacrifice on the cross pay for your sins, and he casts it "as far as the east is from the west?" What's the deal with purgatory then? Isn't that you paying for your own sin?

Good gracious ! Just when I think the Roman "church" is merely heterodox...I realize that it is indeed a false church.