A Topic of Moral Theology
The Heroic Act of Charity
Offering all one's satisfactions for the souls in purgatory.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Heroic act of charity · Indulgences · Sabbatine privilege
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Appendix. On Indulgences, Pt. II, Section VII. On the Heroic Act of Charity, nn. 549 & 550 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Enchiridion, and Supplement to the Compendium of Moral Theology of Gury-Ballerini (Enchiridion Morale)
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion, On Indulgences, nn. ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. IV, On Indulgences, On the Privileged and Gregorian Altar, n. 1380 — What of the heroic act of charity with regard to the privileged altar? A personal indult of a privileged altar on each day of the year, as also the faculty of applying to the departed all indulgences granted and to be gr… Read in context →
Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On the Jubilee, n. 1380 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Penance (Volume I), Appendix: On Indulgences, nn. 665 & 666 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Indulgences — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · Spirago · Slater, Back to Morality and 2 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)