 | Seward Brice - 1875 - 730 pagina’s
...(«) Rich v. Bushnell, 4 Hagg. Eccl. *JS(x) 3 Hagg. Eccl. 336. (j) i Curt. 880, 887. J. Woolfrey. ' It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.' (2 Mac. xii. 46.)" It was objected to as involving the doctrine of purgatory ; but the Court held,... | |
 | Michael Müller - 1875 - 524 pagina’s
...in the world to come. Q. How do we know that there is a Purgatory ? A. Holy Scripture tells us that "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." 2 Machab. ii. Q. What do we learn from this passage ? A.... | |
 | Joseph Deharbe - 1876 - 344 pagina’s
...the Church.2 1 In the Holy Scripture— -namely, the Old Testament — it is said (2 Mae. xii. 46): ' It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.' In the Mew Testament, Christ speaks (Matt. xii. 32) of sins which... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1877 - 512 pagina’s
...recommended their deceased friends to mercy ; and from a passage in the Second Book of Maccabees [xii. 46, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead "j it appears that (from whatever source they derived it) they had the custom before His time. But... | |
 | George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1878 - 540 pagina’s
...at once settle the question of praying and offering sacrifice for the dead : for it says clearly, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." Did God say this, or did He not ? The answer hung upon whether... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1879 - 402 pagina’s
...have learnt in his last moments, with Topham Beauclerc 'standing at the foot of his death-bed, that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In his view of the awfulness of death and personal responsibility... | |
 | Louis Nedelec - 1879 - 624 pagina’s
...of the dead, because Judas and his warriors knew to a man, as the Sacred Biography remarks, " that it is a, holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sin."1 A day will again dawn over Cambria when the sons of Britain, re-converted... | |
 | François Xavier Schouppe - 1879 - 450 pagina’s
...detained there can be helped by the prayers of the faithful, and above all by the Sacrifice of the Mass. ' It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins,' says the Scripture. Purgatory is the name given to that place... | |
 | Louis Nedelec - 1879 - 700 pagina’s
...of the dead, because Judas and his warriors knew to a man, as the Sacred Biography remarks, " that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sin."1 A. day will again dawn over Cambria when the sons of Britain, re-converted... | |
 | James Hildyard - 1879 - 464 pagina’s
...holy eucharist in commemoration of the dead, and upon which is the glorious text from Maccabees — "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." ' " ' The whole of the funeral arrangements," says the Union triumphantly, ' were carried out by the... | |
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it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
