For the whole Church observes this practice which was handed down by the Fathers: that it prayers for those who have died in the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, when they are commemorated in their own place in the sacrifice itself; and the sacrifice is offered also in memory of them on their behalf.” - St. Augustine of Hippo, Homilies, 172, 2 (AD 400
thought it might be enlightening to hear from the person RC Sproul has called perhaps the greatest theologian ever.
I’m a protestant evangelical...
Just because RC Sproul says Augustine is the “greatest” doesn’t make it so. Sproul and Augustine are both wrong on allegorism, eschatology and assurance.