A short account of the celebrated Indulgence of the Portiuncula

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Page 3 - an indulgence is the remission of the temporal penalty due to actual sins, already remitted as to their guilt, granted externally to the Sacrament of Penance by those who have the power of distributing the spiritual...
Page 1 - But we have passed from all its cares, Are anchored safely from its fears ; And yet we burn in purging flames, Where minutes seem like long, long years. Oh, help, oh, pity us; and we Will pay you back a thousand-fold, And speed your entrance to the land Whose streets are paved with living gold. Oh, help, oh, pity us j our hearts Are burning fiercer than the fires Which round us play in livid flames, To purge us from all earth's desires. Oh, help, oh, pity us ; one prayer, One little alms, for Jesus...
Page 6 - BOW. practise them on any other day in the year, he shall gain a hundred days of Indulgence. Whoever shall be accustomed to say, at least once a week, the Chaplet, or the Rosary, or the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or of the Dead, or the Vespers, or at least one Nocturn together with Lauds, or the Seven Penitential Psalms with the Litanies, and the Prayers, on the day on \vhich he shall say the same, shall gain a hundred days of Indulgence.
Page 3 - But in the special sense in which it is here considered, an indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven.
Page 1 - The heart-pulse of His open side ; Could you but know with what a love He burns to have His children home,— Your hearts would break with tearful grief That you on earth must longer roam. But we have passed from all its cares, Are anchored safely from its fears ; And yet we burn in purging flames, Where minutes seem like long, long years. Oh, help, oh, pity us ! and we Will pay you back a thousand-fold, And speed your entrance to the land Whose streets are paved with living gold. Oh, help, oh, pity...

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