Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
Jerry Bridges

Treasury Of Merit

Treasury Of Merit

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.