Manual Of Indulgences

This exclusive English-language translation of the Manual on Indulgences explains what indulgences are and provides the many devotional prayers associated with them.

This book is an unedited reprint of the 1957 edition. From Title page: Edited and in part newly translated into English from the 1950 official edition "Enchiridion Indulgentiarum--Preces et Pia Opera" issued by the Sacred Penitentiary Apostolic by authorization of the Holy See. All prayers originally in Latin in the Typical Edition are given in English and Latin. Other prayers in English Only. These are the official prayers of the Catholic Church. Even though the Church has changed indulgences these prayers are timeless and an excellent aid to the Interior Life.

2024 Hardcover Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Revised under Pope Pius XII, this official collection (raccolta) of the Catholic Church's prayers and devotions was published in English in 1957. It includes a timely supplement of additional prayers for many urgent needs all of which were composed under the same pontiff. Many of the more commonly used prayers and devotions are followed by the Latin text, thus providing the perfect aid for teachers and parents anxious to keep the Church's language both alive and spiritually efficacious. These eight hundred prayers touch practically every spiritual and physical need, and every personal and societal hope. They are the confidently suppliant voice of the Catholic Church in her maternal zeal, joy and agony, nobility and militancy. Includes numerous supplements through 1962 and a comprehensive table of contents at the end for quick access.

This booklet outlining the nature and value of indulgences and the new regulations thereon is designed to inspire in us the practice of making reparation for ourselves and for the Poor Souls. Taken from the official Enchiridion of Indulgences. Many Catholics do not even know what a plenary indulgence is, let alone how to gain one.

At the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the dawn of the Protestant movement, Indulgences: Luther, Catholicism, and the Imputation of Merit sets forth a revised theological interpretation of the Church’s practice of indulgences. Author Mary C. Moorman argues that Luther’s sola fide theology merely absolutized the very logic of indulgences which he sought to overthrow, while indulgences in their proper context remain an irreducible witness to the Church’s corporate nuptial covenant with Christ, by which penitents are drawn into deeper fellowship with the Church and the Church’s Lord. As Robert W. Shaffern, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Scranton, writes in his foreword to Indulgences, “Mary Moorman’s book joins a number of recent scholarly studies that revise substantially the old convictions about indulgences. She is mostly interested in how theological thinking about indulgences should be done today, with of course the help that patristic, medieval, and early modern authorities might lend. She brings to bear a broad range of primary and secondary sources on the issue of indulgences and constructs an impressive series of covalent images with which to understand the role of indulgences in today’s Christian Church.”