Jimmy Kimmel
– Parents tell their kids they ate all their Halloween candy:
The kid in
the skeleton custom collapsing on the floor reminds me of Oliver.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
How to Spring a Soul from Purgatory in 4 Easy Steps
According to
the current Enchiridion of Indulgences, one can apply a
plenary indulgence to a departed soul by the "visitation of a
cemetery" {Coemeterii visitatio}
from November
1st till the 8th (i.e. the Octave of All Saints).
Here's the text:
Here's the text:
Visit to a
Cemetery (Coemeterii visitatio)
An indulgence, applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed.
The indulgence is plenary each day from the 1st to the 8th of November; on other days of the year it is partial.
An indulgence, applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed.
The indulgence is plenary each day from the 1st to the 8th of November; on other days of the year it is partial.
In
order for the indulgence to be plenary, the following conditions must also be
met alone with the visit and prayers at the cemetery:
- Sacramental
confession within “about twenty days” of the actual day of the
Plenary Indulgence.
- Eucharistic
Communion on the day of the Plenary Indulgence.
- Prayer
for the intentions of the Pope on the day of the Plenary Indulgence.
- It
is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be
absent.
A pope's warning to those who attack religious freedom
“We
belong to the Church militant ; and she is militant because on earth the powers
of darkness are ever restless to encompass her destruction. Not only in the
far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this
our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the
Creator’s supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights.”
~ Pope
Pius XII
14
October 1953
Praying for Departed Souls
The importance of praying for
departed souls is mentioned in the Bible, in the Second book of Maccabees:
"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that
they may be loosed from sins." (2 Macch. 12, 46). It is possible to obtain
a plenary (full) indulgence for departed souls, from November 1 to November 8,
by doing all the following: going to the sacramental Confession (and have no
attachment to sin, even venial), participating in the Holy Mass and receiving
the Holy Eucharist each day we wish to gain the indulgence (but we only need to
go to Confession once during the period), reciting the Creed to renew our
profession of faith, praying according to the intentions of the Holy Father
(one Our Father, one Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father or other prayer) each
day we perform the work of the indulgence, and visiting a cemetery at least
once from November 1 to November 8 to pray for the deceased, even mentally.
"An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints."
"An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin." Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead.
"An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints."
"An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin." Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead.
(Cathechism of the Catholic Church,
X, art. 1471).
Denver's Catholic Regis University says no to Obama Rally
Just say
no! Good for that Jesuit
university.
After being denied a campaign “rally” at Regis University in Denver, the
Obama campaign settled for a “dialogue” with a co-chair of a left-wing group
that calls itself “Catholics for
Obama.”
According to Catholic News Agency, only about 45 people attended
the dialogue on October 25th, the topic of which was “Catholic Social Teaching: The
Intersection of Faith and Politics.”
The Choice
Great article . .
.
The Choice by Charles
Krauthammer
If Obama loses, however, his presidency becomes a historical parenthesis, a passing interlude of overreaching hyper-liberalism, rejected by a center-right country that is 80 percent nonliberal.
Should they summon the skill and dexterity, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan could guide the country to the restoration of a more austere and modest government with more restrained entitlements and a more equitable and efficient tax code. Those achievements alone would mark a new trajectory — a return to what Reagan started three decades ago.
Every four years we are told that the coming election is the most important of one’s life. This time it might actually be true. At stake is the relation between citizen and state, the very nature of the American social contract.
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