 | Stephen Keenan - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...would-be an absurdity. Now, in 2 Machab. xii. 43, &c., we are told that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. St. Paul — 2 Tim. i. 16, 18 — prays for Onesiphorus, after his death, " that the Lord grant he... | |
 | Charles Hastings Collette - 1853 - 112 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John B. Scollard - 1854 - 346 Seiten
...sacrifices offered 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Hastings Collette - 1856 - 514 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1856 - 436 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1856 - 1210 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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. 
