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.
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Nice
thanks for showing me the right meaning of this word and its biblical roots at least i can say something. Thumbs up the crew.
The word indulgence comes from a Latin word meaning ‘to be kind to’