Confessional Corner: The Mass for the Dead (Ap XXIV 89-99)

Our adversaries have no references and no command from Scripture for defending the use of the ceremony for freeing the souls of the dead. (Ap XXIV 89) This belief, that such services and sacrifices atone, remains and always will remain in the world. Carnal people cannot tolerate that the honor of an atoning sacrifice belongs solely to Christ's sacrifice because they do not understand the righteousness of faith. Rather, they assign equal honor to the rest of the services and sacrifices. (Ap XXIV 97)