 | Catholic hours - 1840 - 408 pages
...Amen. Our Father, &c. Hail, Mary, full of grace, &c. FOR THB DEAD. O 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. behalf of the souls of thy servants, and our brethren,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1841 - 192 pages
...only for the living, but also for the dead. 11. Is it then lawful to pray for the dead ? Yes : " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." (2 Mac. xii. 46.) 10. For all mankind. — / exhort that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and... | |
 | Pierre Dens - 1841 - 540 pages
...punishment from the sin is signified : in which sense it is said, 2 Mace. xii. 46. ' It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought, to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.' Also, when an indulgence from the guilt and penalty is said to be granted, the power of absolving... | |
 | Charles Constantine Pise - 1841 - 208 pages
...was true then that a purgatory existed, it will always be true; and it will always be ' a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.' Add to this, the remark of the Redeemer, that there are sins which shall not be forgiven either in... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pages
...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 washed from their sins." In another portion of the Apocrypha, especially in the book of Tobias, which... | |
 | William Patrick Palmer - 1842 - 500 pages
...should rise " again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain " to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy ' ' and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that " they may be loosed from their sins. (xii. 43 — 46.) " .... It proves therefore, that, at the time of the " Maccabees, the conviction... | |
 | 1842 - 728 pages
...still members of the church, they share in the communion of saints ; and the scripture says, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sine." 2 Mace. xii. 46. Q. What shall I do that I may have life everlasting ? A. " If thou wilt enter... | |
 | Joseph Rathborne - 1842 - 90 pages
...he is an object of our pious solicitude, he should be a frequent subject of our prayers, for "it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." And now having ascended this pulpit, the chair of Catholic doctrine and truth; in this temple,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1843 - 230 pages
...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 of Tobias (which has been received as an... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1843 - 602 pages
...should vise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.1-' (vv. 43-46.) Many will say that the second Book of Maccabees is not part of the Scripture... | |
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It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
