"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins."
Ah, yes, the Apocrypha. You accept it. I don't. Simple enough.
Back to purgatory- can any Catholic explain why the formula I described in my previous post wouldn't work? Why is there a single soul still in purgatory??
The statement that that prayer will release "1000" souls from Purgatory is simply not true. There is no basis for such a claim, which was probably corrupted from an indulgence of 1000 days given for the prayer (1000 days off canonical penance).