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St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Preparation for Death: Consideration XI, Third Point, pp. 147–149 · selected passage. Dublin: James Duffy, 1843. Translated by A Catholic Clergyman (as credited on the title page).
Open the meditation’s sourceSt. Alphonsus de Liguori, Preparation for Death: Consideration XXIV, Second and Third Points, pp. 293, 296, 299 · selected passages. Dublin: James Duffy, 1843. Translated by A Catholic Clergyman (as credited on the title page).
Open the meditation’s sourceSt. Alphonsus de Liguori, Preparation for Death: Consideration XXVI, First and Third Points, pp. 314, 323 · selected passages. Dublin: James Duffy, 1843. Translated by A Catholic Clergyman (as credited on the title page).
Open the meditation’s sourceSt. Alphonsus de Liguori, Preparation for Death: Consideration XXIX, Second Point, pp. 354–357 · selected passages. Dublin: James Duffy, 1843. Translated by A Catholic Clergyman (as credited on the title page).
Open the meditation’s sourceConsideration XI, “Value of Time,” Third Point, pp. 147–149. Dublin: James Duffy, 1843. Translated by “A Catholic Clergyman.” The archive catalog says 1893; the scanned title page says MDCCCXLIII (1843).
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae I–II, q. 3, a. 8, respondeo (“I answer that”). Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Second and Revised Edition, 1920; online at New Advent.
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Open sourceSumma, Supplement, q. 88, a. 1, respondeo. Posthumously compiled from Aquinas’s Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences, traditionally associated with Reginald of Piperno. 1920 English Dominican translation.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1005–1014, especially 1013–1014.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1021–1022.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1038–1041.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1033–1037.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1023–1029.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1030–1032.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1854–1864.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1450–1460.
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Open sourceParagraphs 1524–1525.
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Open sourceParagraphs 988–1019; text hosted by the Holy See’s Congregation for the Clergy.
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Open sourceScripture-based aids for preparation for the Sacrament of Penance.
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Open sourceRev. Thomas L. Kinkead, An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism, Prayers. Text bears approvals dated 1891 and 1921. Historical forms of the acts of faith, hope, love, and contrition.
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Open sourceChapters I–IV and VII: the souls’ conformity to God’s will, charity, suffering, and hope of full enjoyment of Him. Teaching here is original editorial explanation based on the supplied English translation of the Treatise. This spiritual account is read within the Church’s doctrine of Purgatory.
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Open sourceConsiderations V, X–XII, XVII, XXII–XXVI, XXIX–XXXIII and XXXVI, and the prefatory explanation of meditation, affections, and petitions. Teaching and practical guidance are editorial. The selected meditations and associated Affections and Prayers use Dublin: James Duffy, 1843, translated by “A Catholic Clergyman”; the complete library book uses a separate supplied English translation.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae I–II, q. 3, a. 8, answer: perfect happiness and the vision of the divine essence. New Advent text: Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae I–II, q. 114, a. 9, answer and reply to objection 1: final perseverance is not merited but may be obtained by prayer. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae III, q. 59, a. 5, answer: a final judgment manifests the consequences of lives beyond death. This article belongs to Aquinas’s own text of the Tertia Pars, not the posthumous Supplement. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae I–II, q. 87, a. 4, answer: turning from the infinite Good and turning inordinately toward finite goods. The article does not teach infinite bodily intensity. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae II–II, q. 19, articles 2 and 5, answers: fear of punishment and fear of offending God differ in their objects. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae I, q. 12, articles 4–5, answers: no created intellect can see the divine essence by its natural powers; the light of glory is required. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSumma Theologiae III, q. 86, articles 4–5, answers: remaining temporal punishment and disordered dispositions after guilt is forgiven. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920.
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Open sourceSession VI (13 January 1547), chapters V–VII and XIII; canons XVII and XXX. Grace precedes and enables our response; perseverance depends on God; predestination to evil is rejected; temporal punishment may remain after forgiveness. English transcription consulted through Papal Encyclicals Online.
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Open sourceSession XIV (25 November 1551), Doctrine on Penance, chapters I, IV–V; Doctrine on Extreme Unction, chapters I–III. Contrition, sincere sacramental confession, and the Church’s care of the seriously sick. English transcription consulted through Papal Encyclicals Online. Chapters III, V, and VIII also explain confession, forgotten and concealed sins, and satisfaction.
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Open sourceSession XXV (3–4 December 1563), Decree Concerning Purgatory: the departed are helped by suffrages, especially the sacrifice of the altar; popular instruction must avoid uncertain and curious speculation.
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Open sourcePart I, Article V, “Different Abodes Called Hell”: temporary purgatorial punishment cleanses the just for entry into Heaven. English text consulted through the Holy See’s Bibliaclerus repository.
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Open sourceConstitution of 29 January 1336: the purified blessed enjoy the immediate vision of God before bodily resurrection; souls dying in actual mortal sin undergo punishment immediately; all appear bodily at the general judgment.
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Open sourceConfessions I.1.1. Translated by J. G. Pilkington; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, volume 1 (1887), as transcribed by New Advent. The homepage uses original explanation, not a new attributed meditation.
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Open sourceCity of God XXII.30: secure, everlasting happiness in the vision, love, and praise of God. Translated by Marcus Dods; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, volume 2 (1887), as transcribed by New Advent.
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Open sourceCatechetical Lecture 23 (Mystagogical Catechesis V), §§9–10. Translated by Edwin Hamilton Gifford; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, volume 7 (1894), as transcribed by New Advent.
Historical text consulted; concise original explanation, no new quotation.
Open sourceDefinition, partial and plenary indulgences, application to the departed by suffrage, and the disposition and intention of the person seeking them.
Concise original explanation of the current law, checked 11 September 2026.
Open sourceGeneral Remarks §§3–7, 29 January 2000: the state of grace, detachment from sin, sacramental Confession, Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, and application to the departed. The site uses the general explanation, not that document’s separate Jubilee 2000 grants.
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Open sourceCatechismo Maggiore, Part V, chapter VII, question 969. The traditional enumeration: Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven. Italian text transcribed by Museo San Pio X; the site gives an original English explanation.
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Open source2 Machabees 12:43–46 and 1 Corinthians 3:12–15; read in the Church’s interpretation in Catechism 1031–1032. Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, DRBO transcription.
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Open sourcePsalm 129 in the Vulgate and Douay-Rheims numbering, Psalm 130 in many modern editions. A penitential psalm traditionally prayed for the departed; reproduced here for prayer rather than newly translated.
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Open sourceThe sequence inside the confessional; concise editorial paraphrase. The existing historical Act of Contrition remains unchanged.
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Open sourceEnchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth edition, grant 29, with the general norms. The standing grants are distinguished from temporary pandemic extensions. Verified 28 September 2026.
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Open sourceThe Gift of the Indulgence, General Remarks 3–6. The page’s separate Jubilee 2000 works are not being presented as current grants.
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Open sourceExamination, three conditions for mortal sin, purpose of amendment, near occasions, kind and approximate number, forgotten and concealed sins, restitution. The EWTN witness is a translated catechetical text with later bracketed disciplinary updates; it is not a fresh edition of Pius X.
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Open sourceTraditional organization and moral duties. First, questions 2–17; Second, 1–9; Third, 1–12; Fourth, 1–12; Fifth, 1–6, 11–12; Sixth/Ninth, 1–8; Seventh, 1–19; Eighth, 1–15; Tenth, 1–4. Superseded disciplinary provisions and historically contingent examples are not incorporated.
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Open sourcePerfect and imperfect contrition; amendment and voluntary/necessary near occasions; complete confession. Used as historical catechesis, not as a source for current fasting or other disciplinary rules.
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Open sourceCurrent Latin Church pre-Communion confession rule and its conjunctive exception: grave reason AND no opportunity to confess; then perfect contrition with purpose of confession as soon as possible. Checked live 2026-09-11.
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Open sourceGrave matter, full knowledge, deliberate consent; culpability and personal judgment.
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Open sourceFaith, hope, love, presumption and despair.
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Open sourceObligatory Mass, serious excuses and dispensation; Sunday worship and rest.
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Open sourceInnocent human life; abortion and euthanasia. No judgment of a particular person is inferred.
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Open sourceLust, masturbation, pornography, fornication, same-sex sexual acts, coercion and diminished culpability.
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Open sourceOpenness to life and contraception distinguished from legitimate spacing of births.
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Open sourceContraception and direct sterilization; respect between spouses; therapeutic treatment and lawful recourse to infertile periods distinguished.
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Open sourceFalse witness, rash judgment, detraction, calumny, lying and reparation.
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Open sourceMaterial and spiritual works of mercy and duties toward the poor.
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Open sourceScriptural basis of the Ten Commandments; questions use editorial shortened labels.
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Open sourceAnger, reconciliation, lust, adultery, occasions of sin and truthful speech.
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Open sourceFamily duties, sincere work, and the responsibilities of those exercising authority.
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Open sourceExamination before Holy Communion and the gravity of unworthy reception.
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Open sourceCurrent confirmation of obligations for sacramental life, holy days, fasting and abstinence, and supporting the Church according to ability. Local discipline and lawful exemptions must be respected.
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