Glory Be... Indulge Me.

Glory Be to the Father...to the Son ...to the Holy Spirit (whatever THAT is), as it was in the beginning and is now...

(almost there...I'm thinking...)

and ...always will be? (maybe) World without end.... AMEN.

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Howzat from memory? (Six more and an Ave Maria to go.)It's been a long time. But it was worth it. I can get a "Get out of Purgatory Free" card someday if I keep it up.The Catlicks are bringing back "indulgences." Since they haven't eliminated Purgatory yet, they can still come up with things for people to do get out of it once they are in there, provided it still exists.

Remember, Limbo is gone now. The Church eliminated it months ago, after teaching about it for 800 years or so. But dead babies couldn't do good deeds or recite Glory Be's to get out of Limbo anyway.






(Photo is from Dante's Purgatory)

from Slate:

An older version of the Enchiridion, known as the Raccolta, did assign lengths of time for each indulgenced act. Reciting seven Gloria Patris and one Ave Maria in a single day, for example, would grant you "an indulgence of 100 days." That didn't mean, however, that the penitent would get 100 days knocked off his purgatorial stay. A 100-day indulgence just earns you the equivalent of 100 days of earthly penance. (In the early and medieval church, penances were extremely arduous; a sinner might be
sentenced to years of nothing but bread and water or months of wearing
sackcloth.)

Looks like there are a few loopholes. But even purgatory sounds better than wearing sackcloth or just eating bread and water. You could get scurvy.