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CANONICAL PENANCES

BASIC R.C. BELIEF In primitive times, heavy penalties were exacted for grave sins. As martyrdom was supposed to effect certain salvation, those about to be martyred could offer their merits as a substitute for these heavy, or canonical, penances that were being endured by others. Those thus helped were receiving an indulgence. Indulgences that were for one year would give the recipient the benefit of one year of canonical penance to be applied toward his debt of temporal punishment.

POST VATICAN II Indulgences no longer carry a time allotment, so, while the concept began with the idea that these canonical penances, and while the principal remains the same, there is no time attached to these anymore.

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