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and communion are prescribed for the gaining of a plenary 

 indulgence, both conditions must be complied with, even 

 though the conscience is not burdened with mortal sins. 14 



The so-called jubilee indulgence (iubilaeum mains, an- 

 nus sanctus) differs from an ordinary plenary indulgence 

 chiefly in this that the confessors enjoy larger faculties. 15 



In view of the fact that every indulgence presupposes 

 a more than ordinary measure of penitence, faith, and 

 worship, and that the gaining of indulgences usually leads 

 to greater frequentation of the Sacraments, the moral ef- 

 fect of the Catholic doctrine of indulgences must be rated 

 very high. 16 Gaining an indulgence always involves con- 

 trition, penitence, and a firm purpose of amendment. 17 



Readings. — St. Thomas, Summa Theologica, 3a, Suppl., qu. 12- 

 15- — St. Alphonsus, Theologia Moralis, 1. VI, n. 506-530 (ed. 

 Gaude, Vol. Ill, p. 516).— Pohle-Preuss, The Sacraments, Vol. 

 Ill, pp. 217 sqq.— Th. Slater, S.J., A Manual of Moral Theology, 

 Vol. II, pp. 171 sqq., 443 sqq.— Sabetti-Barrett, S.J., Compendium 

 Theologiae Moralis, pp. 682 sqq., 1058 sqq. — Ad. Tanquerey, S.S., 

 Synopsis Theologiae Moralis, Vol. I, pp. 124 sqq., 277 sqq. — M. J. 

 O'Donnell, "Penance in the New Code," in the Irish Ecclesiastical 

 Record, No. 601 (Jan. 1918), pp. 14-24. 



14 See the Constitutions of Bene- 

 dict XIV, "Accepimus in civitate," 

 1746, and "Inter praeteritos," 1749. 

 The confession may be made 

 within eight days, and Communion 

 received on the vigil of the day to 

 which the indulgence is attached. 

 Codex Iur. Can., Can. 931, § 1. 

 See also § 2 of same canon. 



15 H. Thurston, S.J., The Holy 

 Year of Jubilee, London 1900; Idem 

 in the Cath. Encyclopedia, s. v.; P. 

 Bastien, De Iubilaeo Anni Sancti 

 aliisque lubilaeis, Maredsous 1901. 



16 See Linsenmann, Lehrbuch der 

 Moraltheologie, p. 237. 



17 E. Goller (Die papstliche Pbni- 

 tentiarie von ihrem Ursprung bis zu 

 ihrer Umgestaltung unter Pius V., 

 Vol. I, Rome 1907, pp. 213-242) 

 shows that the concept of indulgen- 

 tia plenaria is genetically contained 

 in the most ancient penitential let- 

 ters or confessionalia. He refutes 

 the Protestant contention that the 

 Church by indulgences meant to 

 forgive the guilt rather than the 

 punishment of sin and demonstrates 

 that the remissio peccatorum or 

 remissio culpae always depended on 

 valid confession. 



