Actually, it does work like that. You can endow a priest or a monastery to say mass for yourself or someone else on a perpetual basis and you store up goodie points in the celestial “treasury”.
Often used to buy a dead relative’s way out of purgatory.
The efficacy of prayer depends on the sanctity of the person doing the praying (Which must be why the Pope’s endless prayers for peace have worked so well these last two thousand years.)
Actually, it does work like that. You can endow a priest or a monastery to say mass for yourself or someone else on a perpetual basis and you store up goodie points in the celestial “treasury”.
Often used to buy a dead relative’s way out of purgatory.
The efficacy of prayer depends on the sanctity of the person doing the praying (Which must be why the Pope’s endless prayers for peace have worked so well these last two thousand years.)