What Are Indulgences? Sharing

Are Catholic Indulgences a Scam? The Hidden Truth Revealed | EP 58
Hérauts de l'Évangile Canada | 9.I.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXfc4hk3bA

A nuance in theology, or two, which I had to correct:

4:55 "a person in the state of venial sin"

No such thing. Venial sin does not constitute a state, it only weakens the state of grace or strengthens the state of original or mortal sin. Whichever one may be in. But it does not constitute a state.

You no doubt mean, with a debt of venial sin.

8:04 "there is no such thing as a day in Purgatory or in Heaven, it's eternity"

In Heaven there is certainly not a succession of day and night, because Jesus who is the light of Heaven, unlike the Sun that was created on day 4 does not set.

However, it's also not eternity as God experiences eternity. Neither blessed nor damned are in the timelessness of God. Time is a beginning with an end. The departed souls to some measure (except the duration of Purgatory and the time up to the raising of the bodies) experience a beginning without an end. God Himself has neither beginning nor end. Heaven, Purgatory, Hell are not in a separate universe, their existence is contemporaneous to ours, even if their experienced time flow is certainly different.

14:23 The idea of total soul sleep can also be refuted from II Maccabees, since the High Priest says that Jeremias is at that time praying for Israel. [Chapter 15]

16:46 I don't think Pope Michael II has authorised the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

19:03 I don't think the indulgence was supposed to take people out of Hell, according to anyone at the time.

You have listened to Protestants disfiguring the history.

A certain indulgence could be earned by going to a Crusade or sending money to the Crusade. Another indulgence (the one which the Deformation came to target) was to be gained by working or sending money to the building of St. Peter's in Rome, which was being repaired. Those who collected money to be sent did have a certain margin, and that one, the Dominicans bought the right to collect, with money borrowed from the Fuggers and half the money collected was sent to Rome, half given in debt payment to the Fuggers.

But everyone said it was about Purgatory. No one said it was about Hell. Including Tetzel.

30:31 I'll be sharing the prayer of St. Gertrude which certainly is authorised.

Prayer of St. Gertrude: Releasing Souls from Purgatory
https://prayforsouls.org/ways/prayers/st-gertrude