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2. A partial indulgence is also granted when, prompted by an attitude of faith, we
devote ourselves or our goods to the service of brothers and sisters in need (like
teaching the catechism to children or giving donations to the poor)

This second grant is intended to serve as an incentive to the faithful to perform more
frequent acts of charity and mercy, thus following the example and obeying the command
of Christ Jesus (John 13:15 & Acts 10:38)

However, not all works of charity are thus indulgenced, but only those which "serve their
brothers in need," in need, for example, of food or clothing for the body or of instruction or
comfort for the soul.

Matthew 25:35-36, 40 For I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave
me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked and you covered me; sick and you
visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.... Amen I say to you, as long as you did it
for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me.

3. A partial indulgence is granted when, in a spirit of repentance for sin, we voluntarily
abstain from something we like (like drinking water instead of Coke and “offering it
up” for the souls in purgatory).

This third grant is intended to move the faithful to bridle their
passions and thus learn to bring their bodies into subjection and to
conform themselves to Christ in his poverty and suffering.

But self-denial will be more precious, if it is united to charity,
according to the teaching of St. Leo the Great: "Let us give to virtue
what we refuse to self-indulgence. Let what we deny ourselves by
fast -- be the refreshment of the poor."

Luke 9:23 If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross
daily, and follow me.

1 Cor. 9:25-27 And everyone in a contest abstains from all things, and they indeed to receive
a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. I, therefore, so run as not without a purpose; I
so fight as not beating the air; but I chastise my body and bring it into subjection.

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