Category: Poetry
Doctrine of Suarez on Purgatory St. Catherine of Genoa on Purgatory Extracts from the Fathers on Purgatory Verses from the Imitation _Thomas à Kempis._ St. Augustine and his Mother, St. Monica St. Gertrude and the Holy Souls St. Joseph's Intercession for the Faithful Departed...
"But now, brethren, if I come to you, speaking with tongues: what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in doctrine?"
12. Chapter 12Well beseems That we should help them wash away the stains They carried hence; that so, made pure and light, They may spring upward to the starry spheres. Ah! so may mercy tempe...
10. Chapter 10In Austria we find an example of devotion to the dead, in the saintly Empress Eleanor, who, after the death of her husband, the Emperor Leopold, in 1705, was wont to pray two ho...
11. Chapter 11Thus we see how, as time went on, the doctrine of Purgatory was brought home to the minds of the faithful as a portion or form of penance due for post-baptismal sin. And thus th...
7. Chapter 7We know them not, nor hear the sound They make in treading all around: Their office sweet and mighty prayer Float without echo through the air; Yet sometimes, in unworldly place...
8. Chapter 8All the ages, every clime Strike the silver harp of time, Chant the endless, holy story, Souls retained in Purgatory. Freed by Mass and holy rite, Requiem, dirge and wondrous mi...
9. Chapter 9"Hark! the whirlwind is in the wood, a low murmur in the vale; it is the mighty army of the dead returning from the air." These beautiful words occur in one of the ancient Celti...
5. Chapter 5_Dies Iræ_ Authorship of the _Dies Iræ_ Dante's _"Purgatorio"_ Hamlet and the Ghost _Shakespeare._ Calderon's "Purgatory of St. Patrick" The Brig o' Dread _Scott._ Shelley and t...
3. Chapter 3Doctrine of Purgatory amongst the Pagan Nations of Antiquity _Rev. A. A. Lambing_. Devotion to the Dead amongst American Indians Superstitious Belief amongst American Indians Re...
1. Chapter 1Doctrine of Suarez on Purgatory St. Catherine of Genoa on Purgatory Extracts from the Fathers on Purgatory Verses from the Imitation _Thomas à Kempis._ St. Augustine and his Mot...
4. Chapter 4Purgatory _Cardinal Newman_ Our Debt to the Dead _Cardinal Manning_ Purgatory _Cardinal Wiseman_ Reply to some Misstatements about Purgatory _Archbishop Spalding_ Count de Maist...
2. Chapter 2The Fruit of a Mass _Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory_. Faith of a Pious Lady _Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory_. Pay what Thou Owest _Ave Maria_. VIA CRUCIS _Footsteps of Spi...