 | father Rowland (fict.name.) - 1852 - 190 pages
...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 this... | |
 | Sisters of Mercy (LIMERICK) - 1852 - 378 pages
...dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." (2 Mac. xii. 43, 46.) COMMUNION OF SAINTS. " There shall be joy before the angels of God, upon... | |
 | Charles Hastings Collette - 1853 - 112 pages
...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 ; and, secondly, that our blessed Saviour distinguishes 1 Bell. Disput. tom. ip 1807-S. Ingolst. 1590.... | |
 | John Jenkins (Rev. of Montreal.) - 1853 - 440 pages
...the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost. ' It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be .loosed from their sins.' Maccabees, chap, xii, ver. 46." The Second Rule reads thus : "Every well disposed Catholic wishing... | |
 | Joseph Dixon - 1853 - 538 pages
...praying for the dead, from the 2nd book of Machabees, where it is said, that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." — 2 Mac. xii. 46, — they fuil not to observe, that they do not argue from this as inspired... | |
 | John B. Scollard - 1854 - 346 pages
...for the dead who were slain in the battle, concluding, '* That it is a wholesome and holy cogitation to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.'' 2 Mac. xii. 43. B ut the defence of purgatory by this apocryphal tale, is like a thief on his trial... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1855 - 342 pages
...thought " well and religiously of the resurrection;" and infers "it is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." The Greek says that he made an expiation for those who had died nept T&V I will not discuss with you... | |
 | 1855 - 380 pages
...books of the Machabees, because containing an express declaration, that "it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." But if that cold, withering system of so called religion had thus cut off every sort of communication... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1856 - 436 pages
...battle, on which he makes this observation : " It is therefore," saith he, " a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Unfortunately, however, for the doctrine of Purgatory, this passage proves quite too much. For it appears... | |
 | John Cumming - 1856 - 300 pages
...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 inspired,... | |
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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. 
