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Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James, 1820-1903

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* * * * * * * * * * The Pain Of Loss.

The Pain Of Sense. * * * * * * * * * *

St. Catharine Of Genoa On Purgatory. * * * * *

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Extracts From The Fathers. [1]

Verses From The Imitation. Thomas A Kempis.

St. Augustine And His Mother, St. Monica.

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St. Gertrude And The Holy Souls. * * * * * * * * * *

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* * * * * * * * * * St. Joseph's Intercession For The Faithful Departed.

St. Francis De Sales On Purgatory [1] Cardinal Gibbons On Purgatory.

The Doctrine Of Purgatory. Archbishop Hughes. [1]

Archbishop Lynch. * * * * *

* * * * * Purgatory Surveyed. [1] Father Binet, S. J.

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* * * * * On Devotion To The Holy Souls. Father Faber.

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Why The Souls Is Purgatory Are Called "poor" Souls. Father Muller, C.s.s.r. [1]

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Appeal To All Classes For The Souls In Purgatory. By A Paulist Father.

The Souls In Purgatory. [1] Rev. F. H. Weninger, S.j., D.d.

* * * * * * * * * * A Popular View Of Purgatory. Rev. J. J. Moriarty, Ll.d. * * * * *

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* * * * * Extracts From "catholic Belief." Very Rev. Faa Di Bruno. [1]

Purgatory And The Feast Of All Souls. Alban Butler.

Anecdotes And Incidents. The Fruit Of A Mass.

The Faith Of A Pious Lady.

Pay What Thou Owest.

The Via Crucis Strange Incidents.

A True Story Of The "de Profundis."

Confidence Rewarded.

Anecdote Of The "de Profundis."

A Strange Occurrence In A Persian Prison. A Swiss Protestant Converted By The Doctrine Of Purgatory.

A Beautiful Example.

How To Pay One's Debts.

Faith Rewarded.

Apparition Of A Citizen Of Aries.

The Countess Of Strafford. Gratitude Of The Holy Souls.

A Strange Incident.

Part Iii. Historical Historical. By The Rev. A. A Lambing, A.m.

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Remembrance Of The Dead Throughout Europe. Part Ii.

Prayer For The Dead In The Anglo-saxon Church. Dr. Lingard.

A Singular French Custom. Devotion To The Holy Souls Amongst The Early English. Anna T. Sadlier.

Doctrine Of Purgatory In The Early Irish Church. Walsh. [1]

Prince Napoleon's Prayer.

The Helpers Of The Holy Souls. By Lady Georgiana Illerton.

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The Mass In Relation To The Dead. O'brien [1] * * * * *

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Funeral Oration On Daniel O'connell. Rev. Thomas Burke, O. P.

The Indulgence Of Portiuncula.

Catherine Of Cardona.

The Emperor Nicholas Praying For His Mother. Funeral Oration On Pius Vi. Rev. Arthur O'leary, O S F.

* * * * * From The Funeral Oration On The Rev. Arthur. O'leary, O.s.f. Rev. Morgan D'arcy. De Mortuis. Our Deceased Prelates.

Part Iv. Thoughts Of Various Authors On Purgatory. Thoughts Of Various Authors On Purgatory. Purgatory. Cardinal Newman.

Our Debt To The Dead. Cardinal Manning

Purgatory Cardinal Wiseman.

Reply To Some Misstatements About Purgatory. Archbishop Spalding, Of Baltimore. Count De Maistre On Purgatory.

What The Saints Thought Of Purgatory. Purgatory. Chateaubriand.

Mary And The Faithful Departed. By Brother Azarias.

Vii. Dr. Johnson On Prayers For The Dead. * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * The Doctrine Of Purgatory. Burnett [1] Mallock On Purgatory. [1]

Boileau-despreaux And Prayer For The Dead. All Saints And All Souls. [1] Mrs. J. Sadlier.

Leibnitz [1] On The Mass As A Propitiatory Sacrifice. Extracts From "a Troubled Heart."

* * * * * Eugenie De Guerin And Her Brother Maurice.

Passages From The Via Media.

All Souls. From The French. An Anglican Bishop Praying For The Dead. * * * * *

The "purgatory" Of Dante. Mariotti.

The Mouth Of November. [1] Mary E. Blake (marie).

All Souls' Day [1] Mrs. J. Sadlier.

Cemeteries. Opinions Of Various Protestants.

Some Thoughts For November. * * * * *

Dante's "purgatorio."

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Hamlet And The Ghost. Shakespeare. Calderon's "purgatory Of St. Patrick."

The Brig O' Dread. Sir Walter Scott.

Shelley And The Purgatory Of St. Patrick.

On A Great Funeral. [1] Aubrey De Vere. "morte D'arthur." Tennyson. Guido And His Brother.

Berthold In Purgatory. Collin De Plancy.

A Legend Of St. Nicholas.

"dream Of Gerontius." Cardinal Newman. Souls In Purgatory

St. Gregory Releases The Soul Of The Emperor Trajan Mrs. Jameson.

St. Gregory And The Monk The Legend Of Geoffroid D'iden.

The Queen Of Purgatory. By Frederick William Faber, D. D. The Dead Priest Before The Altar. Rev. A. J. Ryan.

Memorials Of The Bead. R. R. Madden. [1] A Child's Requiescat In Pace. Eliza Allen Starr. The Solitary Soul.

The Story Of The Faithful Soul. Adelaide Anne Procter. Generade, The Friend Of St. Augustine. J. Collin De Plancy.

St. Thomas Aquinas And Friar Romanus.

The Penance Of Don Diego Riez. T. D. Mcgee.

The Day Of All Souls. Eliza Allen Starr.

By Eleanor C. Donnelly. I. Ii. A Legend Of The Time Of Charlemagne. The Dead Mass.

The Eve Of St. John. Sir Walter Scott.

The Bequest Of A Soul, In Purgatory.

All Souls. By Marion Muir. The Dead. Anna T. Sadlier.

A Requiem. Sir Walter Scott.

Hymn For The Dead. The Penance Of Robert The Devil. Collin De Plancy.

All Souls' Eve. Eleventh Month, November: The Holy Souls. Commemoration Of All Souls. Harriet M. Skidmore.

A Lyke Wake Dirge. All Souls' Day. Second Vespers Of All Saints.

The Suffering Souls. By E. M. V. Bulger. The Voices Of The Dead.

The Convent Cemetery. Rev. Abram J. Ryan.

One Hour After Death. Eliza Allen Starr. A Prayer For The Dead. T. D. Mcgee. The De Profundis Bell. [1]

Harriet M. Skidmore. November. Anna. T. Sadlier. For The Souls In Purgatory. Anonymous.

All Souls' Eve. Our Neighbor. Eliza Allen Starr. Purgatory. Old Bells.

O Holy Church! Harriet M. Skidmore. An Incident Of The Battle Of Bannockburn. Sir Walter Scott. * * * * *

Requiem Aeternam. T. D. Mcgee.

Extracts From "the Catholic Review." [1]

A Requiem For The Cardinal In Paris. A Duty Of November. "have Pity On Me, At Least You, My Friends."

Purgatorial Association. A Card From Rev. S. S. Mattingly.

The Holy Face And The Suffering Souls.

When Will They Learn Its Secret? How The Cardinal's Obsequies Impressed A Baptist Spectator.

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It will not be amiss here to resolve you certain pertinent questions. Whether the suffrages we offer up unto God shall really avail them for whom we offer them; and whether they alone, or others also, may receive benefit by them? Whether it be better to pray for a few at once, or for many, or for all the souls together, and for what souls in particular?

To the first I answer: if your intention be to help any one in particular who is really in Purgatory, so your work be good, it is infallibly applied to the person upon whom you bestow it. For, as divines teach, it is the intention of the offerer which governs all; and God, of His infinite goodness, accommodates Himself to the petitioner's request, applying unto each one what has been offered for its relief. If you have nobody in your thoughts for whom you offer up your prayers, they are only beneficial to yourself; and what would be thus lost for want of application, God lays up in the treasury of the Church, as being a kind of spiritual waif or stray, to which nobody can lay any just claim. And, since it is the intention which entitles one to what is offered before all others, what right can others pretend to it; or with what justice can it be parted or divided amongst others, who were never thought of?

And hence I take my starting-point to resolve your other question--that if you regard their best advantage whom you have a mind to favor, you had better pray for a few than for many together; for, since the merit of your devotions is but limited, and often in a very small proportion, the more you divide and subdivide it amongst many, the lesser share comes to every one in particular. As if you should distribute a crown or an angel [1] amongst a thousand poor people, you easily see your alms would be so inconsiderable, they would be little better for it; whereas, if it were all bestowed upon one or two, it were enough to make them think themselves rich.

[Footnote 1: A gold coin of that period so called because it was stamped with the image of an angel.]