The First General Grant
“A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who, in the performance of their duties and in bearing the trials of life, raise their mind with humble confidence to God, adding – even if only mentally – some pious invocation.” – Enchiridion of Indulgences, I, (1999)
- The universal conditions to receive an indulgence must also be fulfilled
- By virtue of this grant those acts only are indulgenced, by which the faithful, while performing their duties and patiently suffering the trials of life, raise their mind to God in the manner indicated.
- Acts of this kind, considering the frailty of human nature, are not frequent.
- But should anyone be so zealous and fervent as to make such acts frequently in the course of a day, he would justly merit — over and above a copious increase of grace — a fuller remission of the punishment due for sin and he would in his charity be able to come to the aid of the souls in purgatory so much the more generously.
- The above observations apply with practically the same force to the second and third grants
