...Jerusalem that sacrifice might be offered for the Main, and it is recommended as a wholesome practice to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. Now these two books of Maccabees were certainly held iu great veneration by all antiquity ; and, as...

...Bishop: — "To the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of Clonfert. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to Pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." — Macab. xii. 46. " Beloved Christians, — It is an article of Catholic belief that the souls of...

...to what we read in the second book of Machabees (c. xii. v. 46.) It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. Protestants indeed• have endeavoured to evade the force of this scriptural text, by denying the second...

...the deail that were slain in battle; the sacred writer concluding, that it is a wholesome and holy cogitation to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins, 2 Mach. xii. 43. —In the new law this doctrine is as ancient as the church; witness St. Augustin:...

...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 time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: All that the Father...

...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." • The Scriptural references for that place of departed spirits, where they are detained till purified...

...Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : Amen.—" It Is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their tins."— 2 Mac. xii. 45. THE members who compose the Society of Office for the Dead, which commenced...

...following inscription occurs, cut in stone, over the entrance : — " It is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." 2nd Machabeus, xii. 43. The inside is ornamented with stucco work, representing the Holy Spirit, in...

...following inscription occurs, cut in stone, over the entrance : — " It is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." 2nd Machiheus, xii. 43. The inside is ornamented with stucco work, representing the Holy Spirit, in...

...the safety of the living, notwithstanding the sacred penman's express declaration that it is salutary to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. But, continues the Vicar, 2*2 these soldiers " died in mortal sin ;"* hence he concludes that prayers...