By spreading this knowledge out of charity for the suffering souls in Purgatory, you are enabling someone else release a soul from the prison of Purgatory, and for this reason, it is an indulgence-based act in the Jubilee Year!

Saint Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, in her book The Interior Castle (read for free), says that making the souls in Purgatory your number one priority, offering everything you do for their relief, means having reached level 2 of the seven stages to holiness.

During the Jubilee, until January 6, 2026, for the first time in the history of the Church, it is possible to gain two plenary indulgences per day (instead of the usual maximum of one) by performing an act of charity for the souls in Purgatory and receiving Holy Communion a second time.

There is no minimum waiting time between the two Communions. The only requirement is that the second reception occurs during a Mass (or Eucharistic celebration) in which you fully participate. Code of Canon Law #917: “A person who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist can receive it a second time on the same day only within the eucharistic celebration in which the person participates…” An authentic interpretation by the Pontifical Commission (approved by St. John Paul II on 11 July 1984) clarified that “iterum” (again) means exactly a second time, not a third or more (except as Viaticum for the dying, per Canon 921 §2).

The faithful who are unable to receive indulgence (the sick, the elderly, prisoners) can obtain the indulgence by uniting themselves spiritually and offering their sufferings.

It is fitting to offer all indulgences, partial or plenary, for the holy souls in Purgatory, reserving the last indulgence of one's life for oneself, in order to avoid being consumed by Purgatory, or even better, reserving nothing, if one gains the last indulgence reserved for the dying, or one is entitled with the Sabbatine Privilege of the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (the soul is released from Purgatory by Our Lady on the first Saturday after death).

To gain a plenary indulgence at the hour of death, it is enough to venerate a cross or crucifix in repentance, and for this reason, in addition to the scapular, it is important to always carry a blessed crucifix (e.g. the one from the Rosary).

During the Jubilee, every single day, one can release 2 souls who will pray 24 hours a day, grateful for our intentions. And after the Jubilee, with the daily indulgence of the Rosary, 1 per day, up to 365 souls per year. Imagine a cloistered convent of 365+ nuns just praying 24/7 for you: this is more, since the grateful souls, released from Purgatory, pray for your intentions and the ones of the militant Church, in the full presence of God, thus advancing the Second Coming of Jesus.

The liberated souls of Purgatory will also pray that someone on Earth gains indulgences for you, if unfortunately you don't avoid Purgatory.

Some think, "I'll procastinate confession so I can sin a little longer". Sin is never free of charge: it comes with a self-curse and lots of suffering for you, others, Jesus and Mary, who paid for every single future sin at the Cross.

Confession erases the guilt of sin but not the debt to Divine Justice, which is paid by the penance given by the Priest, the penance offered by the Priest himself, our mercy works and sufferings offered up, and if there's anything left, by suffering the fire of Purgatory, unless we gain a plenary indulgence the day of our death.

The Jubilee lasts until January 6, 2026, when the Pope will close the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica.

Easier alternative works to gain a plenary indulgence in the Jubilee:

- Pray for the souls suffering in Purgatory

- Abstain from trivial distractions (real or virtual, such as social media).

- Fast or practice abstinence.

- Donate money to the poor.

- Pray the five mysteries of the Rosary in the company of others or before the Blessed Sacrament/Tabernacle.

- Spend half an hour reading and meditating on the Bible.

- Spend half an hour praying before the Blessed Sacrament.

- Pray the Way of the Cross: it is the fastest way to gain plenary indulgence because it only requires a moment of devout meditation on the Passion of Christ. It has to be legally erected (ask your Priest!):
(1) bishop’s written permission
(2) proper blessing from the Book of Blessings by a Franciscan or a priest delegated by the bishop
(3) use of 14 wooden crosses for each station, placed inside the church or beginning/ending there if the procession goes outside

Important: those last 4, will still be available after the Jubilee, because they are detailed in the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, but with the limit of 1 plenary indulgence per day and no limit for partial indulgences.

And the usual conditions:

- No unconfessed mortal sin

- No attachment to sin

- One Holy Communion for each plenary indulgence

- Confession within 7 days before or after the indulgenced action

- Pray for the Pope's intentions (anything will do, OurFather and a Hail Mary recommended)

There's no virtue without humility. And there's no humility without gratitude. We owe our lives to our ancestors. We owe them indulgences. All the family tree up to Adam and down to our most distant relatives (all of humanity!). We offer them to our closest relatives and friends but indulgences are a suffrage (offering): it is God in His Perfect Justice who decides who deserves it most (e.g. our great grand-mother might be burning far longer than a recently diseased loved one).

It was revealed to some mystics that some will remain in Purgatory until the end of the world. For example, Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerick was shown a woman who demolished Catholic Churches during the masonic French Revolution, who was spared from hell because she would protect the altars to Virgin Mary but she would remain in Purgartoy for centuries until the end. This proves we will never offer enough indulgences to release all of the souls.

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/how-to-obtain-a-plenary-indulgence-during-the-2025-jubilee

Full text:

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/tribunals/apost_penit/documents/rc_penitenzieria-ap_20240513_norme-indulgenza-giubileo2025_en.html

Free ebooks and audiobooks about avoiding Purgatory

The Art of Dying Well (St. Robert Bellarmine) – pdf, text, epub, kindle; also pdf here; or audiobook here

Treatise on Purgatory (S. Catherine of Genoa) – audiobook; or pdf, text, epub, kindle format here

The End Of This Present World And The Mysteries Of The Life To Come by Fr. Charles Arminjon recommended by St. Therese of Lisieux

Read Me or Rue It + How to avoid purgatory (Fr. Paul O’Sullivan) – pdf, text, EPUB, kindle; audiobook: part 1, part 2

Purgatory Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints by Fr. Francois Xavier Schouppe - also here and Purgatory (audio here and here)

Member for member : a plea for the souls in purgatory by Fr. Isadore O'Brien (1895-1953) – pdf, text, epub, kindle format

Manuscript on Purgatory (Sr. Mary of the Cross, Mons. Culleton) – pdf; or audiobook here.

Who Dies Shall See: Purgatory and Heaven (Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo) – pdf

After a lot of searching, I couldn't find the following recommended books for free. If anyone finds them, please write to the email at bottom:

• Maria Simma, Nicky Eltz "Get us out of here!!"
• María Vallejo-Nágera "Between heaven and earth"

They are in Amazon, but I don't like financially supporting Amazon, our masonic enemy.

Important for the Church

Don't tread on Me, says ... JESUS !

Eucharistic miracle proves we are ALL stepping on Jesus!

http://www.catholic365.com/article/29922/the-popes-hidden-miracle.html

On one hand, heretics deny the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic crumbs with the false argument that they are tiny, while on the other, they correctly believe in a consecrated host with just one invisible molecule of gluten, yet they don’t seem to care about the error of fake-consecration of zero-gluten hosts:

Celiac hosts that are not capable of hosting Jesus

https://www.catholic365.com/article/50945/vatican-error-low-gluten-hosts-that-cant-host-jesus.html

 
Mary’s physical presence in the Eucharist

https://www.catholic365.com/article/30587/cat-ai-mary-is-physically-present-in-the-eucharist.html

Virgin Mary’s body found ?!

https://www.catholic365.com/article/30567/virgin-marys-body-found.html

 
Was Mary just another maiden?

https://www.catholic365.com/article/38948/its-all-about-mary.html

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Purgatory in the Bible

By prayers for the dead (paying the debt of sin in Purgatory) we win friends in Heaven. The "wealth" in this passage is the infinite Grace that Jesus won on the Cross, that we partially collect for the souls of Purgatory, through partial indulgencies (as reducing the debt) or  full indulgence (paying all the debt, with immediate release to Heaven):

Luke 16:1-13

1 Then he also said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property.

2 He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’

3 The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg.

4 I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’

5 He called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

6 He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’

7 Then to another he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘One hundred kors* of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.’

8 And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.
Application of the Parable.* “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.*a

9 I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth,* so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.b

10 The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones.c

11 If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

12 If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?

13 No servant can serve two masters.* He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

25 Biblical Passages on Purgatory

by Dave Armstrong, a protestant who converted to Catholicism, by reading St. John Henry Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. Also here, here, here.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

III. The Final Purification, or Purgatory

1030 All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.604 The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. the tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:605

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.606

1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: "Therefore Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin."607 From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God.608 The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead:

Let us help and commemorate them. If Job's sons were purified by their father's sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.609

X. Indulgences

1471 The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the sacrament of Penance.

What is an indulgence?

"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."81 "An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin."82 Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead.

The punishments of sin

1472 To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence. Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life, the privation of which is called the "eternal punishment" of sin. On the other hand every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified either here on earth, or after death in the state called Purgatory. This purification frees one from what is called the "temporal punishment" of sin. These two punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin. A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain.83

1473 The forgiveness of sin and restoration of communion with God entail the remission of the eternal punishment of sin, but temporal punishment of sin remains. While patiently bearing sufferings and trials of all kinds and, when the day comes, serenely facing death, the Christian must strive to accept this temporal punishment of sin as a grace. He should strive by works of mercy and charity, as well as by prayer and the various practices of penance, to put off completely the "old man" and to put on the "new man."84

In the Communion of Saints

1474 The Christian who seeks to purify himself of his sin and to become holy with the help of God's grace is not alone. "The life of each of God's children is joined in Christ and through Christ in a wonderful way to the life of all the other Christian brethren in the supernatural unity of the Mystical Body of Christ, as in a single mystical person."85

1475 In the communion of saints, "a perennial link of charity exists between the faithful who have already reached their heavenly home, those who are expiating their sins in purgatory and those who are still pilgrims on earth. between them there is, too, an abundant exchange of all good things."86 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others, well beyond the harm that the sin of one could cause others. Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.

1476 We also call these spiritual goods of the communion of saints the Church's treasury, which is "not the sum total of the material goods which have accumulated during the course of the centuries. On the contrary the 'treasury of the Church' is the infinite value, which can never be exhausted, which Christ's merits have before God. They were offered so that the whole of mankind could be set free from sin and attain communion with the Father. In Christ, the Redeemer himself, the satisfactions and merits of his Redemption exist and find their effficacy."87

1477 "This treasury includes as well the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are truly immense, unfathomable, and even pristine in their value before God. In the treasury, too, are the prayers and good works of all the saints, all those who have followed in the footsteps of Christ the Lord and by his grace have made their lives holy and carried out the mission the Father entrusted to them. In this way they attained their own salvation and at the same time cooperated in saving their brothers in the unity of the Mystical Body."88

Obtaining indulgence from God through the Church

1478 An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins. Thus the Church does not want simply to come to the aid of these Christians, but also to spur them to works of devotion, penance, and charity.89

1479 Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted.