I know I asked earlier but I wanted more thoughts
I went to an Estate sale where the children of a deceased person sells off their belongings to pay off debt and found thes BEAUTIFUL prayer books.
In the back of a old Saint Joseph Daily Missal I can across a section on the rosary
it says
Indulgences for saying the Rosary
a) Those who reverently recite five decades of the Rosary may gain an indulgence of 5 years
b) Those who reverently recite five decades of the Rosary in unison with others publicly or privately may gain an indulgence of 10 years, once a day.
and it goes on
what does Indulgences mean? or a plenary indulgence?
and why in a New Testiment Psalms and Proverbs book would it be printed on the opening cover THIS BOOK NOT TO BE SOLD yet there is no copywrite page or year printed, or even the name of an organization that had once distributed it? No pages have been removed, the binding is in great condition (rarely if ever used)
and not that Im planning on selling the books because I bought them for my own religious collection, but do you think are they worth anything? Some are inlaid leather stamp covers, some are illustrated with old press print quality.
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Indulgence, is getting time off of your sentence in “Purgatory”. Catholic teaching is that you still have to pay for whatever sins you did (even tho Jesus paid the WHOLE price, but they do not believe this, in reallity)
I was amazed as a kid at how MUCH time I probably was going to spend in Purgatory! We constantly did things to get our sentence reduced!
It is not true. Jesus saves to the uttermost- the debt is marked “paid in FULL”.
And you can sell them as antiques. They might be something some collector wants.
I think the Gideons gave away those New Testaments, which means they were not to be sold. I do not know about the Rosary because I am not Catholic.
An indulgence is the extra-sacramental remission of the temporal punishment due, in God’s justice, to sin that has been forgiven, which remission is granted by the Church in the exercise of the power of the keys, through the application of the superabundant merits of Christ and of the saints, and for some just and reasonable motive. It means you are paying off your debt to God. In the good olde days, you could actually purchase them from the church. Now you at least have to pray for them.
The Book of Psalms you describe sounds like one of the free handouts The Gideon’s give out. They give them away, and they did not want people selling them and making a profit, so they imprinted NOT FOR SALE in many copies. At least once a year while growing up, they stood outside the gates of school (making sure to stay outside school property) and hand out small pocket versions to anyone who wanted one.
According to what I have seen on TV programs such as ANTIQUES ROADSHOW and CASH IN THE ATTIC, generally religious items do ont sell well in the after market. They have very little collectible value. Unless it is something like a bible that has been used in a Presidential Inaugeration or belonging to someone famous.
The Indulgence is a special plea to God for relief of the pains of Purgatory
and the amount of years relieved is the hoped-for removed suffering which
the Church through its prayer, adds to the Indulgence. Since the object is
to pray and pray much, for ourselves and others, the Indulgence is a great
encouragement in that direction.
The reason the Testament is marked “not to be sold” is that it may be
blessed, indicating it was a Catholic Book House which was the printer,
and in that case, it may have been purchased by a Catholic who had it
blessed and items which are blessed are forbidden to be the cause of
any monetary exchange under pain of sin to the seller. The buyer,
unable to control the transaction is innocent, however, as he purchases
the item to prevent it from being scandalized or desecrated further.
Having been purchased, they are now no longer blessed.
Traditional Catholics regularly have purchased the discarded altar
stones Catholic parishes who have thrown them into Goodwill. I have
found 3 and rescued them for use in Catholic chapels around the world.
Novus Ordo scoffs at all of this so all Missals are defunct with them.
Traditionalists use all these Daily Missals, rosaries & books, exclusively.
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