Pope St. Innocent I, (A.D. c.350-417) was pope from (A.D. 401 to 417), he lost no opportunity in maintaining and extending the authority of the Roman See as the ultimate resort for the settlement of all disputes.
"As regards penitents, who do penance, whether for more grievous or for lesser offences, if sickness do not intervene, the usage of the Roman Church demonstrates that they are not to have remission granted them on the Thursday before Easter. For the rest, as to estimating the grievousness of the transgressions, it is for the priest to judge, by attending to the confession of the penitent, and to the grief and tears of the amending sinner, and then to order him to be set free when he sees his satisfaction such as is suitable; or, if any such fall ill, so as to be despaired of, he must be pardoned before Easter, lest he depart this world without communion."
Ep. xxv. Decentio, n. 10, Galland. T. viii. p. 589.
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Councils of Orange, (held in A.D. 441 and 529), comprised two synods held at Orange, France. The first (A.D. 441) dealt with various church issues. The second (A.D. 529) affirmed Augustine's teaching against Pelagian challenge.
"It has seemed good that they who depart from the body, after having received penitence, have communion granted them without the reconciliatory laying on of hands; for this, according to the decisions of the fathers, is sufficient for the consolation of one that is dying. But should such persons survive, let them stand in the order of penitents; and, after having shown the necessary fruits of penitence, let them, with the reconciliatory laying on of hands, partake of a lawful communion."
Can. iii. col. 1448, t. iii. Labbe.
The Faith of Catholics, Volume 3, Page 137
Pope St. Innocent I, (A.D. c.350-417) was pope from (A.D. 401 to 417), he lost no opportunity in maintaining and extending the authority of the Roman See as the ultimate resort for the settlement of all disputes.
"It has seemed good that they who depart from the body, after having received penitence, have communion granted them without the reconciliatory laying on of hands; for this, according to the decisions of the fathers, is sufficient for the consolation of one that is dying. But should such persons survive, let them stand in the order of penitents; and, after having shown the necessary fruits of penitence, let them, with the reconciliatory laying on of hands, partake of a lawful communion."
Can. iii. col. 1448, t. iii. Labbe.
The Faith of Catholics, Volume 3, Page 137
An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.
As an analogy, if Purgatory is the Holy Hospital of Heaven, an indulgence is medication the Church gives to the hospital patient for the remission of temporal pain due to self inflicted sin so the patient can be totally spiritually pure to enter that Heavenly oneness with the Lord. (Revelation 21:27)
St. Paul himself issued an indulgence by lessening the temporal penance for sin of a straying brother (2 Corinthians 2:6-11) below, which he had previously imposed on him.
(1 Corinthians 5:3-5)
The Catholic Church adds no more in essence to the practices and theological presuppositions of these two passages.
The Church's Scriptures that support Indulgences are:
19 Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in Heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven.
Matthew 16:19
St. Paul says of the incestuous Corinthian:
3 For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:3-5
Forgiveness for the Offender
6 For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough; 7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 9 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. 10 Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ." 11 to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
2 Corinthians 2:6-11
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