A Treatise On Indulgences
Publisher: James Burns
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: PART I.; title: INDULGENCES IN GENERAL.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: THE DEFINITION OF INDULGENCES 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: ON THE EXISTENCE OF INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. Of the punishment due to sin 3; title: II. On the spiritual treasure of the Church 6; title: III. On the power of granting Indulgences 9; title: CHAPTER III.; title: ON THE NATURE OF INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. An Indulgence is a real absolution from the temporal punishment due to sin 17; title: II. By an Indulgence the Church offers to the justice of God a compensation equivalent to the debt remitted 18; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: ON THE EFFECTS OF INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. Effects of Indulgences with regard to the living 20; title: Quest. 1. What is the real value of the punishment remitted before God by an Indulgence? 21; title: Quest. 2. What is to be thought of Indulgences of ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand years? 23; title: Quest. 3. Do Indulgences release us from the obligation of doing penance? 24; title: Quest 4. Can the penance imposed in confession be discharged by an Indulgence? 25; title: Quest. 5. What is the meaning of these words, sometimes found in Bulls of Indulgences, de paenitentiis injunctis, to which are frequently added, et injungendis? 27; title: Art. II. Effects of Indulgences with regard to the souls of the faithful departed 27; title: Sect. 1. The application of Indulgences to the souls of the faithful departed 28; title: Sect. 2. How Indulgences benefit the dead 30; title: Sect. 3. What is required for the application of Indulgences to departed souls 32; title: Quest. 1. Is it necessary to be in a state of grace, to apply validly an Indulgence to a departed soul? 33; title: Quest. 2. Are Indulgences applicable to all classes of the departed? 34; title: Quest. 3. When the application of an Indulgence is free, as is often the case, is it better to gain it for the dead than for one's self? 35; title: CHAPTER V.; title: HOW INDULGENCES ABE DIVIDED 36; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR GRANTING INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. Of those who have the power of granting Indulgences 38; title: Quest. Can the Pope and Bishops gain the Indulgences which they grant to the faithful? 42; title: II. Of the causes for which Indulgences may be granted; and of the proportion between the means and the end. 42; title: Art. III. The manner of procuring and accrediting Indulgences 47; title: Sect. 1. On asking for Indulgences 47; title: Model of a petition to the Pope to obtain an Indulgence 49; title: Sect. 2. Authenticity of Indulgences 50; title: IV. The length of Indulgences 53; title: Cessation of real Indulgences 55; title: Indulgences attached to a transferable feast 56; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR GAINING INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. Dispositions required in him who wishes to gain an Indulgence 58; title: Sect. 1. They who wish to gain an Indulgence must be in a state of grace 58; title: Quest. 1. Does an affection to venial sin prevent the gaining of the Indulgence? 59; title: Quest. 2. Does he receive the fruit of an Indulgence who, whilst complying with the conditions, commits a venial sin? 59; title: Sect. 2. Of the intention necessary for gaining an Indulgence 60; title: II. The works prescribed for gaining an Indulgence 61; title: Sect. 1. Of the Confession prescribed for gaining a plenary Indulgence 62; title: Quest. 1. Are those who are guilty of venial sins only bound to go to confession in order to gain the Indulgence? 63; title: Quest. 2. Can he who goes to confession a few days before a festival, gain a plenary Indulgence which might occur in the interval? 65; title: Quest. 3. To have a claim to the Indulgence, is it necessary in these frequent confessions always to receive absolution? 66; title: Sect. 2. On the necessity of Communion for gaining an Indulgence 66; title: Quest. May communion be received with the intention of obtaining certain graces for one person, and of gaining the Indulgence for one's self? 66; title: Sect. 3. Prayers ordinarily required for gaining a plenary Indulgence 68; title: Quest. 1. What and when are the prayers to be said, in order to gain the Indulgence? 68; title: Prayer 69; title: Quest. 2. Would a person be deprived of the fruits of the Indulgence, who, through ignorance, impossibility, or inadvertence, failed to recite these prayers, omitted a part, or wholly neglected them at the precise time, but said them a little too soon, or a little too late? 71; title: Quest. 3. May more than one plenary Indulgence be gained on the same day? 72; title: Quest. 4. Can an Indulgence be gained by the performance of what is obligatory? For instance, can an Indulgence be gained which is attached to the "Veni Creator," &c. in reciting the Divine office, if the intention be formed?; title: Can a penitent gain an Indulgence attached to what is prescribed as a penance, or to what he is already bound to by vow? 73; title: Quest. 5. May Indulgences be gained for the living, as they may for the dead? 74; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: OF FALSE OR APOCRYPHAL INDULGENCES.; title: Art. I. Rules to discern whether an Indulgence be false or apocryphal 76; title: II. Indulgences which have been declared false or apocryphal, or revoked 78; title: PART II.; title: OF INDULGENCES IN PARTICULAR.; title: CHAPTER I. PRIVILEGED ALTARS.; title: Quest. 1. Is it necessary that the intention of the Mass should be for that soul to which the Indulgence is to be applied? 80; title: Quest. 2. Should the Mass be a Requiem Mass, and consequently in black? 81; title: Quest. 3. When the Mass of the day is said, ought a prayer for the deceased to be said, according to the intention proposed in the application of the Mass? 82; title: Quest. 4. What is the meaning of the clause usually inserted in briefs for erecting privileged altars : "dummodo in dicta ecclesia tot Missa quotidie celebrentur?" 82; title: Quest. 5. What is implied by this other clause, usually inserted in briefs of Indulgences : "Volumus autem ut si alias Christi fidelibus" &c.?; title: Would a privileged altar in a church render null the concession of a general Indulgence obtained for this same church, without mentioning this privilege? 85; title: Quest. 6. If a privileged altar be destroyed, in order to build a new one, or if its place be changed, does it lose its privilege? 86; title: Quest. 7. Is it necessary to say at a privileged altar the Masses for which fees have been given on this condition? And if a priest has engaged to say more Masses than he is able, how must he act? 86; title: Quest. 8. Is it necessary for the valid application of a plenary Indulgence attached to a privileged altar, to confess habitually every week, or on the eve of the day on which the application is made? Is it necessary also to say the prayers ordinarily prescribed for plenary Indulgences? 87; title: CHAPTER II.; title: INDULGENCES AT THE HOUR OF DEATH.; title: Formula to be used in the application of the plenary Indulgence in articulo mortis 91; title: Quest. 1. Is it necessary to say the "Confiteor," when the Indulgence is given immediately after extreme unction 94; title: Quest. 2. May this Indulgence be given to persons who are senseless? 94; title: Quest. 3. May this Indulgence be reiterated during the same illness? 94; title: Quest. 4. Can a person receive several plenary Indulgences during the same sickness? 96; title: Quest. 5. When, by reason of a personal indult, of a cross, medal, &c. any one has the privilege of a plenary Indulgence at the hour of death, what is to be done to receive its application? 97; title: CHAPTER III.; title: INDULGENCE OF THE FORTY HOURS.; title: Quest. 1. Is it necessary that the Blessed Sacrament be exposed during forty entire hours? 99; title: Quest. 2. Is it necessary, in order to gain the Indulgence, to pray before the Blessed Sacrament on each of the three days? 100; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: INDULGENCES OF THE WAY OF THE CROSS.; title: Establishment of the Way of the Cross 102; title: Indulgences attached to the Way of the Cross 105; title: Conditions required for gaining these Indulgences 106; title: Indulgences for the sick, and others who cannot visit the stations 108; title: CHAPTER V.; title: INDULGENCES OF THE AGONY OF OUR SAVIOUR 109; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO BEADS.; title: Art. I. Chaplets or Crowns of our Saviour 111; title: Crown of our Saviour 111; title: Crown of the Five Wounds of our Saviour 115; title: Crown of the Precious Blood of our Saviour 117; title: Prayer 118; title: An Offering of the Blood of our Saviour 119; title: Crown of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 121; title: II. Chaplets or Crowns of the Blessed Virgin 124; title: Crown or Chaplet of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin 124; title: The Rosary 126; title: Indulgences attached to the recitation of the Rosary 128; title: The ordinary Chaplet or Beads 128; title: Bridgetine Beads 129; title: Beads simply indulgenced 131; title: Crosses and Medals 133; title: Observations on Beads, Crosses, and Medals 134; title: Quest. 1. In what do Bridgetine Beads differ from beads simply indulgenced? 137; title: Quest. 2. Is a priest, who has obtained from Rome the faculty of blessing beads, crosses, and medals, and of attaching to them the same Indulgences as His Holiness, thereby empowered to confer the Indulgences of Bridgetine Beads? 137; title: Quest. 3. Can a priest empowered to bless beads, under the term used at Rome "coronas deprecatorias ," also bless and indulgence rosaries and crowns of our Saviour? 138; title: Quest. 4. When a priest has obtained the power of blessing with the Indulgences of St. Bridget a certain number — two thousand for example — of crosses, medals, and chaplets, can he bless two thousand of each, or must he confine himself to two thousand in all? 139; title: Quest. 5. Can a priest bless with the Indulgences of St. Bridget chaplets already indulgenced, or of whose blessing there is a doubt? 139; title: Quest. 6. Can a ring with ten marks be considered a corona deprecatoria, and indulgenced as a chaplet? 140; title: Quest. 7. What form of prayer ought to be used in blessing and indulgencing crosses, medals, or beads? 140; title: Blessing for crosses and medals 140; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO WORKS OF PIETY IN HONOUR OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY.; title: Prayer 143; title: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Mary 145; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO THE "VENI CREATOR," THE LITANIES, THE "ANGELUS," THE "SALVE REGINA," THE "SUB TUUM," AND THE "STABAT MATER."; title: Sect. 1. Indulgence for the "Veni Creator" 146; title: Sect. 2. Indulgences for the Litanies of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin 146; title: Sect. 3. Indulgences for the "Angelus" 147; title: Sect. 4. Indulgences for the "Salve Regina" and the "Sub Tuum" 149; title: Sect. 5. Indulgence for the "Stabat Mater" 150; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO DIFFERENT PRACTICES IN HONOUR OF GOD.; title: Sect. 1 Indulgences for the " Tersanctus" and the "Gloria Patri" in honour of the Holy Trinity 150; title: Sect. 2. Indulgences for praising the Holy Name of God 152; title: Sect. 3. Indulgences for reciting acts of Love in form of a Crown 152; title: Acts of the Love of God 153; title: Sect. 4. Indulgences for acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity 156; title: Sect. 5. Indulgences for resignation to the will of God 157; title: CHAPTER X.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO PRACTICES OF DEVOTION IN HONOUR OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.; title: Sect. 1. Indulgences for the invocation of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary 157; title: Sect. 2. Indulgences for honouring the birth of Jesus Christ 159; title: Sect. 3. Indulgence for a prayer before a crucifix 159; title: Sect. 4. Indulgences for visiting the Blessed Sacrament 161; title: Sect. 5. Indulgences for adoring the Blessed Sacrament, and for frequent communion 163; title: Sect. 6. Indulgence for an ejaculatory prayer to the Blessed Sacrament 163; title: Sect. 7. Indulgences attached to the office of the Blessed Sacrament 164; title: Sect 8. Indulgences for the "Pange lingua" and for the "Tantum ergo" 165; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO PRACTICES IN HONOUR OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND OTHER SAINTS.; title: Sect. 1. Indulgences for the Month of Mary 165; title: Sect 2. Indulgences for a prayer in honour of the Blessed Virgin and St Anne 166; title: Sect. 3. Indulgence for an ejaculatory prayer in honour of the Immaculate Conception 166; title: Sect 4. Indulgences for preparing for Festivals of the Blessed Virgin 167; title: Sect. 5. Indulgences for a prayer in honour of St Michael 167; title: Sect. 6. Indulgence for a prayer to our Angel Guardian 169; title: Sect. 7. Indulgences for prayers in honour of St Joseph 169; title: Sect. 8. Indulgences for prayers in honour of SS. Peter and Paul 171; title: Sect. 9. Indulgences for the Festival of St. Francis of Paula 176; title: Sect. 10. Indulgences attached to devotions in honour of St. Aloysius of Gonzaga 176; title: Prayer to St. Aloysius of Gonzaga 177; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: INDULGENCES ATTACHED TO MENTAL FRAYER, TEACHING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, AND PRATERS FOR THOSE IN THEIR LAST AGONY AND FOR THE DEAD.; title: Sect. 1. Indulgences for mental prayer 178; title: Sect. 2. Indulgences for teaching the Christian doctrine 178; title: Sect. 3. Indulgences for those who pray for the dying 179; title: Sect. 4. Indulgences for the Office of the Dead, for the Gradual Psalms, and Penitential Psalms 180; title: Sect. 5. Indulgence attached to a prayer for the dead 180; title: Sect. 6. Indulgence for the "De profundis" 181; title: Sect. 7. Indulgences for those who pray that Christians may be preserved from sudden death 181; title: Prayers 182; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: INDULGENCES PECULIAR TO ECCLESIASTICS.; title: Prayer 185; title: Prayer 186; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: INDULGENCES PECULIAR TO RELIGIOUS 186; title: PART III.; title: CONFRATERNITIES AND SODALITIES.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: CONFRATERNITIES IN GENERAL.; title: Art. I. The name and origin of Confraternities 190; title: II. Rules to be observed in establishing Confraternities 192; title: III. Confraternities in relation to Bishops 198; title: IV. Confraternities in relation to Parish Priests 200; title: CHAPTER II.; title: CONFRATERNITIES IN PARTICULAR.; title: Art. I. Confraternity of the Rosary 202; title: Indulgences granted to the Members of the Confraternity of the Rosary 204; title: Conditions necessary for gaining the Indulgences of the Confraternity of the Rosary 209; title: The Living Rosary 209; title: II. Confraternity of the Scapular, or of our Lady of Mount Carmel 210; title: Indulgences of the Confraternity of the Scapular 211; title: Admission into the Confraternity of the Scapular 213; title: Obligations of the Members of the Confraternity of the Scapular 215; title: Privilege of the Bull "Sabbatina" 216; title: Art. III. Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 218; title: Indulgences granted to the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 219; title: Establishment of the Confraternity of the Blessed; title: Sacrament 222; title: Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 223; title: IV. Confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 224; title: Establishment of the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart, and the admission of Members 226; title: Indulgences attached to the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart 228; title: Practices of the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart 230; title: V. Confraternity of the Holy Hour 231; title: Spiritual advantages of the Holy Hour 232; title: Conditions of the Indulgence of the Holy Hour 232; title: VI. Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Munich 233; title: Admission into the Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Munich 234; title: Spiritual advantages of the Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Munich 235; title: VII. Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Namur 237; title: Indulgences of the Confraternity of our- Lady Auxiliatrix of Namur 237; title: Admission into and obligations of the Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Namur 240; title: VIII. Confraternity of our Lady Auxiliatrix of Mans 241; title: IX. Confraternity of the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary 241; title: Conditions of association to the Archconfratemity 242; title: Practices observed by Members of the Arch-confraternity 243; title: Spiritual advantages of the Archconfratemity 243; title: X. The Catechisms of St. Sulpice 244; title: XI. On the Association of the Propagation of the Faith 246; title: XII. Brief remarks on some other Confraternities or Religious Associations 248; title: XIII. Of the Congregations usually formed in houses of education, and sometimes in parishes 250; title: Indulgences granted to the Congregation of the Annunciation 252; title: The Plenary Indulgences 252; title: The Partial Indulgences 253; title: Indulgences applicable to the dead 255; title: Other Privileges 255; title: Conditions for gaining the Indulgences of the Congregation 256; title: Remarks on the utility of Confraternities, and the obligations contracted in them 257; title: PART IV.; title: THE JUBILEE.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: ON THE NAME AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF JUBILEES.; title: Art. I. The ordinary Jubilee at Rome 260; title: Sect. 1. History of the ordinary Jubilee at Rome 261; title: Sect. 2. Ceremonies of the ordinary Jubilee at Rome 263; title: II. The ordinary Jubilee in the other dioceses of the Catholic world 265; title: Quest. If the Pope should die before the expiration of the term fixed for the Jubilee, may the faithful still continue to gain it? 267; title: III. The extraordinary Jubilee 268; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE CONDITIONS OF THE JUBILEE.; title: Art. I. The works of piety common to ordinary and extraordinary Jubilees 271; title: Sect. 1. The Procession 271; title: Sect. 2. Confession 271; title: Quest. 1. When must this confession be made? At the commencement, the middle, or the end of the prescribed works of piety? 273; title: Quest. 2. Is a person obliged to confess twice, who is bound to make his Easter communion, but who also wishes to gain the Jubilee? 273; title: Sect. 3. Communion 274; title: Quest. 1. Will a Communion which is made by a person who really thinks he is in a state of grace, when he is not, suffice for the Jubilee? 275; title: Quest. 2. Will one communion satisfy for an Easter communion and a jubilee? 276; title: Sect. 4. Visits to the churches 276; title: Quest. 1. Is it necessary, in order to gain the jubilee at Rome, to enter the basilicas by the holy door 277; title: Quest. 2. Do those who, haying commenced their journey to Rome, die on the road, or are detained by sickness or other cause, or, being arrived at Rome, are unable to finish or even commence their stations, gain the Indulgence? 278; title: Quest. 3. Is it necessary to say any prayers in visiting the churches? 278; title: Quest. 4. Ought the prayers to be vocal? 278; title: Quest. 5. How long should a person pray? 279; title: Quest. 6. Should silence be observed in going from church to church? 279; title: Quest. 7. If the crowd be so great as to prevent ingress to the church, what must be done? 279; title: Quest. 8. May a person visit a church twice on the same day, and thus satisfy the intentions expressed in the Bull, which requires a certain number of visits ; or would a person satisfy for two days in counting from the first to the second vespers? 280; title: Quest. 9. Can a Bishop increase or diminish the number of stations fixed by the Pope? 281; title: Quest. 10. If there are pot four churches in a diocese, or if they are too far distant, what must the Bishop do? 281; title: Quest. 11. May a person make his stations in a neighbouring parish? 281; title: Quest. 12. If a church or chapel designated by the Bishop should fall down or be burnt during the time fixed for the stations, what must be done? 282; title: Art. II. Works of piety peculiar to extraordinary Jubilees 282; title: Sect. 1. Fasting 282; title: Sect. 2. Alms 284; title: Quest. 1. If the person on whom the alms is bestowed be poor in appearance only, would the giver gain the Indulgence? 286; title: Quest. 2. But if a person gave his alms to another to bestow on the poor, and this latter foiled to do so, or if he gave it after the time fixed for the Jubilee had expired, would he gain the Indulgence? 286; title: Quest. 3. Ought the alms to be given during the week appointed for fasting? 287; title: CHAPTER III.; title: PRIVILEGES OF THE JUBILEE.; title: Art. I. The privilege peculiar to the faithful 288; title: II. Privileges granted directly to confessors, but indirectly to penitents 288; title: Sect. 1. Privilege of absolving from reserved cases, and from censures 289; title: Sect. 2. Power of dispensing from irregularity 290; title: Sect. 3. The privilege of commuting vows 292; title: Quest. 1. Can a jubilee confessor commute a vow made never to ask the commutation of a vow? 296; title: Quest. 2. Can the vow of never committing sins of incontinence be commuted? 296; title: Quest. 3. Is a confessor bound to commute a vow when asked? 297; title: Sect. 4. The prorogation of a Jubilee 298; title: Sect. 5. Commutation of the works prescribed 299; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: OF THOSE WHO CAN GAIN A JUBILEE; title: Quest. 1. May a traveller gain a Jubilee during his journey? 302; title: Quest. 2. Can a Bishop approve a strange priest, and communicate to him the Jubilee privileges, which he should receive at the hands of his own diocesan? 303; title: Quest. 3. Can a person who is indifferent about a particular Jubilee, and enters on a journey a few days before the expiration of the term of the Indulgence, gain it on his return? 303; title: Quest. 4. Can a Jubilee be gained more than once? 304; title: Quest. 5. When the Pope does not express himself particularly on this question, can the Jubilee be gained several times? 304; title: Quest. 6. When there is an absolute certainty that the Jubilee has been published at Rome, can a person who is about to die, or about to proceed on a long journey, gain the Jubilee, before it has been published in his own diocese? 305; title: Quest. 7. Is there any obligation of gaining a Jubilee? 305; title: Quest. 8. Can a Jubilee have different degrees in its application? 305; title: Quest. 9. May one person gain the Jubilee for another? 306; title: CHAPTER V.; title: THE SUSPENSION OF INDULGENCES DURING THE JUBILEE. 306; title: SUPPLEMENT.; title: New Decision concerning Privileged Altars 311