...and because he considered, that such as made a pious end, had plenty of grace stored up for them. Ti< therefore a holy -and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be freed from their sins. GOSPEL. John vi. 37. 40. AT that time : Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews...

...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...

..."Thomas Coen," the Titular 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...

....dead are in formal opposition 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...

...who expired, tuesday, tlie 2 of April, 1811, aged 63 years. Machab. lib. nv 46. It is therefore an holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. PHILADELPHIA, PEN. 9T2. Note. — The following paragraph is from the church records of the learned...

...40.— In those daps : Judas the valiant commander making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem, for sacrifice to be offered...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...

...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:...

...forty-third to the forty-sixth verse:—" Judas, the valiant commander, having made a gathering he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem,...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...

...Meath Street, Dublin. In the Name of the 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...

...stone. The 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...