Catholics To Receive a ‘Plenary Indulgence’ By (/Checks Notes) Praying Before a Nativity Scene
This year, according to the Vatican, fortunate Roman Catholics can receive a plenary indulgence if they pray in front of a Nativity scene in a Franciscan church anytime between December 8, 2023 and February 2, 2024.
In Romanist theology, nearly every Christian who passes away goes to purgatory. Here, even though their sins are forgiven, believers still need to be punished for their sins and cleansed from their attachment to sin before they can go to heaven. This may take five years, or it may take ten thousand years.
Lucky for them, access to indulgences is one way to fast-track the process, reducing the time spent in purgatory either for yourself or a loved one. Roman Catholics believe that there exists a treasury of merit, a “super-abundant store of righteousness and good works belonging to Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints” that the pope alone can “pull from” whenever he wants to transfer the earned merit of some people to others.
A plenary indulgence removes all temporal punishment due to sin and helps purgatory-bound souls get to heaven much faster.
These specific circumstances of merit-giving came after the Conference of the Franciscan Family asked Francis to grant folks a plenary indulgence to celebrate the 800th anniversary of St Francis of Assisi creating the world’s first nativity scene in AD 1223, writing:
“To promote the spiritual renewal of the faithful and increase the life of grace, we ask that the faithful receive a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions from 8 December 2023, the solemnity of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to 2 February 2024, feast of the Presentation in the Temple of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by visiting the churches run by Franciscan families throughout the world and stopping in prayer in front of the Nativity scenes set up there.”
The request was granted.
Notably, however, this indulgence does not apply to nativity scenes in front of churches run by Jesuits, Benedictines, or Dominicans, but only Franciscans.
What a way to live.
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The sick treadmill of Catholicism continues to roll the deluded into the pit when they can’t DO enough to merit their own righteousness.
CHRIST DID IT ALL.
STOP listening to a deceiver and START reading the instruction manual that’s the Bible.
Incredible – pray before manmade dolls to get your relatives to Heaven quicker, courtesy of a decision made by a man in a dress. Sounds good to me 🙂
It’s amazing how arrogant the RCC leadership was at the Council of Trent. Any Protestant with ecumenical leanings really needs to look at all the times the RCC not only doubles down on their false teaching, but proclaims anathematic curses on people who “…assert that they are useless or deny that there is in the [Roman Catholic] Church the power of granting them.”
Unfortunately, this is nothing new and when you read books like Galatians, you realize that the perverted teaching of salvation by faith+works has been attacking the church since day one.
The spirit of Tetzel lives on