 | Catholic Church - 1856 - 1210 pagina’s
...Ghost. Amen. 0ur Father, &c. Hail, Mary, full of grace, &c. FOR THE DEAD. 0 God, Who hast taught us that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins, grant, we beseech Thee, that our humble prayers in behaif... | |
 | John Cumming - 1856 - 300 pagina’s
...counterpart in the rest of the sacred volume. And in the same second book of Maccabees, we read that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In other portions of the Apocrypha, especially in the book... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pagina’s
...souls of the faithful departed. On this day he hears repeated the words of the inspired pensnmn, that " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." And in tins who can sufficiently admire the charity which... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 pagina’s
...counterpart in the rest of the sacred volume. And, in the same second book of Maccabees, we read that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.'' In other portions of the Apocrypha, especially in the book... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1857 - 534 pagina’s
...one with thee, as thou and thy heavenly Father art one, (St John xvii. 21.) At the second Memento. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that *hey may be loosed from their sins; (2 Mac. xii. 46.) therefore endeavour to accelerate the bliss... | |
 | Antoine Martinet - 1861 - 408 pagina’s
...hope in his mercy, but oh, how much is owing to his justice !" Even if Scripture did not tell us that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead,* even if Catholic philosophy did not prove to us that the souls in purgatory, from the very fact of... | |
 | Joseph Deharbe - 1863 - 360 pagina’s
...the Church.3 1 In the Holy Scripture — namely, the Old Testament, it is said (2 Mac. 12, 46) : " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." In the New Testament, Christ speaks (Matt. 12, 32.) of sins which... | |
 | Francis Xavier Weninger - 1863 - 372 pagina’s
...frequently fixing our thoughts on our last end and an impending eternity. The Holy Ghost has said, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from sin."* All experience shows that it is both holy and consoling. I question... | |
 | James Griffin (canon theologian of Nottingham.) - 1864 - 276 pagina’s
...benefactors, and for all the faithful departed : this is the last act of charity we can do for them. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins " '(2 Mace. xii. 46). THE EIGHT BEATITUDES. The word "beatitude"... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee - 1865 - 476 pagina’s
...the following inscriptions : — " Spes mea Christus ;" " Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey ;" and " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. — 2 Mac. sii. 46." "JW obiit 5 die Jan. 1838, ret. 50." The Rev. J. Breeks, vicar of Carisbrooke,... | |
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it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
