 | 1856 - 780 Seiten
...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?... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1857 - 1074 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 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 Tobit, which has been received as inspired,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1860 - 702 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 668 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1861 - 800 Seiten
...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... | |
 | H. E. Dennehy - 1861 - 416 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1863 - 646 Seiten
...that they are the last resting-places of a people who believe it to be " a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." But there is yet another point in reference to which the evidence of these Jewish epitaphs is extremely... | |
 | 1863 - 998 Seiten
...faintly ; but when the good man went on to quote the passage in Maccabees, ' It is a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins ; ' and showed to me that it Ы been in all ages a Christian doctrine, that faithful members of the... | |
 | James Griffin (canon theologian of Nottingham.) - 1864 - 276 Seiten
...departed : this is the last act of charity we can do for them. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins " '(2 Mace. xii. 46). THE EIGHT BEATITUDES. The word "beatitude" means blessedness or happiness. Before... | |
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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. 
