[Sca-cooks] lent, wine, indulgences, de Nola

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org> wrote:
> On indulgences- you can't get an indulgence for
> something you haven't done 
> yet- it is only for sins already committed. You
> must confess the sin and be 
> forgiven- it is the punishment that you are
> avoiding by the indulgence. 
> *and* it can only be done for venial sins, not
> mortal. What an indulgence 
> does essentially is to reduce your punishment
> in purgatory- gets you 'time 
> off for good behavior' :-)
> 
> Thus endeth the lesson. :-)
> 
> 'Lainie

Well that was the original intent.  But during
the Reformation, indulgences _were_ being sold
for future sins, sometimes unspecified future
sins, if you paid enough money.  They were also
selling indulgences for dead relatives, so they
could escape purgatory.  This whole subject was
one of the things that ticked Martin Luther off
and lead eventually to the Reformation.

Huette

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