TREASURY OF MERIT (OR TREASURY OF THE CHURCH)

BASIC R.C. BELIEF

The superabundant merits of Christ and the saints from which the Church

draws to confer spiritual blessings, as Indulgences. The thought is that

some saints had a surplus of merit (more than they needed for Heaven).

Rather than lose these, God stored them so others who have need can draw

from this superabundance.

POST VATICAN II

In the encyclical INDULGENTARIUM DOCTRINA, Vatican II reiterated the Roman

Catholic belief in the Treasury of Merit.

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