Another good reason to homeschool

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

   

 

     

149. CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IT.

     

   On Sundays and other Festivals it is the duty of all parish priests, in their respective parishes, to  teach children Christian doctrine (see Council of Trent, sess. xxiv. cap. iv.  De  Reform.): and all masters of schools are under the same obligations towards  their scholars, and all fathers of families towards their children and domestics, &c. St. Pius V.,  in his Constitution Ex debito pastoralis officii, Oct. 6, 1571, calls  this "a most holy  work."  "His work is the salvation of souls and the preservation  of Christian commonwealths,” says Paul V., in his Constitution Ex credito  nobis, Oct. 6, 1607. For the same reason this Pope, besides erecting into an  arch-confraternity, in the patriarchal basilica of St. Peter, a Congregation of  Christian Doctrine, which  was held there under the directions of the Padri Dottrinarij, or Fathers of  Christian Doctrine, and endowing it with various privileges and indulgences  communicable to similar confraternities aggregated  to it in any diocese out of Rome, granted in the aforesaid Constitution, "in  order to animate the faithful the more diligently to teach and to learn  Christian Doctrine,” the following Indulgence -
  i. An indulgence of seven years and seven quarantines, to all masters of schools  who, on feast-days, shall take their scholars to be instructed in Christian  doctrine, or shall themselves instruct them  in it; and to those masters who, on working days, explain Christian doctrine in  their schools, 100 days indulgence.
 ii. The indulgence of 100 days to fathers and mothers every time  they instruct their children and domestics in Christian doctrine.
  iii. An indulgence of 100 days to all the faithful every that they employ  themselves for half an hour in teaching or learning Christian  doctrine.
  iv. An indulgence of three years, on all the feasts of the Blessed Virgin,  to the faithful of every age who are accustomed to assemble in school or church to  learn Christian  doctrine, provided they confess  on the said feasts; and an indulgence of seven years to those who, being  of age to communicate, shall on those days receive the Blessed Sacrament.
  v. An indulgence of seven years and seven quarantines was added to these  Indulgences by Clement XII., by a  Brief, June 27, 1732, to all the faithful every time that after Confession and  Communion, they assist at catechism, or  doctrinal teaching, or catechise, or teach doctrine.
  vi. He granted also a plenary indulgence, after Confession and Communion,  to those who have the pious custom of assisting at or teaching Christian doctrine,  on the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, on Easter Day, and on the Feast of the Holy Apostles  SS. Peter and Paul.  

 

[Gloria1]

  Dang!  I didn't know that!  Thanks for the info.  The thing is, we don't have domestics, so a lot of time is spent cleaning, cooking and homemaking...But that's great news anyway.

[francis]

This is good to know. I don't have a domestic,and I don't homeschool, but I'm the only one teaching my daughter catholic doctrine.

[Paul]

That indulgence, unfortunately, is no longer in effect, as are all other general grants issued before 1968. The new Enchiridion Indulgentiarum suppressed them. However, these could apply:

"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."

"A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who in a spirit of faith and mercy give of themselves or of their goods to serve their brothers in need."