Timeline for How do the merits of the Saints in Heaven operate?
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| Jul 10, 2022 at 4:57 | history | edited | GratefulDisciple | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2018 at 20:57 | comment | added | Marc | People do not need Merit to get to heaven. Christ Strict Merit gets them to heaven by Grace thru the Obedience of Faith. Our Merit is Con-dignity, united to Christ. Our Merit is not for forgiveness of sins, but for temporal punishment due to sin. Sins are forgiven by the Graces Christ works through the Church in it's Sacraments. The merits of the Saints, continue to ad to the Treasury as long as the meritorious actions of their lives produce fruit. Doing Penance, or the requirements for indulgences, Penance, are positive things and bring people to Christ. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 20:15 | comment | added | Destynation Y | Problem being that saints actually have merits which are their own, of course strictly speaking Christ is the only one who merited in the first place and that in turn helps us to merit. That is taught by the Church, so if their own merits exhaust you could say they would begin using Christ's merits which are virtually infinite. But that seems to be ad hoc, as that would negate the purpose of having people trying to get more merit than they need to enter Heaven. And all cannonized saints have this overflow of merits. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 13:30 | history | answered | Marc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |