 | Charles Hastings Collette - 1856 - 514 pages
...battle ; after which narration the inspired writer concludes thus : It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins (2 Mach. xii. 46). I need not point out the inseparable connection there is between the practice of... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pages
...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 the Catholic Church entertains fur her children?... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1856 - 1210 pages
...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 of the souls of Thy servants, and our brethren,... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 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 Tobit, which has been received as inspired,... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1857 - 1074 pages
..." thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection. It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." This book is ranked among tho canonical scriptures by the apostolical canons, Tertullian, St. Cyprian,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1860 - 702 pages
...the uttermost farthing.' And we are told in the Scripture that ' It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.' This is in the book of Maccabees, and we have the same authority for that book being canonized as any... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1861 - 800 pages
...fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. GOSPEL. John vi. 37. 49. At, that lime: Jesus said lo the multitude of the Jews : All that the Father... | |
 | 1860 - 668 pages
...Francis. Wexford, Iowa Dubuque. Walsh, P St. Louis, Mo St. Louis. nrg. "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins."— 2 MACCAB. xii, 46. PRELATES. May 14th, 1859. — The Right Rev. MICHAEL PORTIEK, DD, Bishop of Mobile,... | |
 | H. E. Dennehy - 1861 - 416 pages
...doctrine, which, if false, he durst not insert in this book. " It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." So the early Church, instructed by the Old and New Testaments, could not be insensible to a sort of... | |
 | H. E. Dennehy - 1861 - 440 pages
...fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins."1 Let us consider for one moment the circumstances that originated the prayers and sacrifices... | |
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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. 
