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22 For beside the common prayer that is used in the Mass for the commemoration of all the faithful deceased, that

this prayer is prescribed for the day wherein the dead did depart out of this life:

Which is a direct prayer, that the soul of him which was then departed might immediately be received into heaven, and escape not the temporary pains of purgatory, but the everlasting pains of hell. For howsoever the new reformers of the Roman Missal have put in here pœnas inferni, under the generality peradventure of the term of the "pains of hell," intending to shroud their purgatory, which they would have men to believe to be one of the lodges of hell; yet in the old Missal which Medina had respect unto, we read expressly pœnas æternas, "everlasting pains;" which by no construction can be referred unto the pains of purgatory. And to the same purpose, in the book of the ceremonies of the Church of Rome, at the exequies of a Cardinal, a prayer is appointed to be read, that by the assistance of God's grace he might

Again,

Such, for example, is that which is found in the Roman Missal:

"Absolve, we beseech thee, O Lord, the soul of thy servant from all the bond