...state, prayer for the dead 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...

...remains firmly established for ever. And, therefore, when the book of Maccabees declares that it is "a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins," I think, »entlemen, it is evidence not to be jontradicted by any far-fetched or fanciful interpretation...

...was true then that a Purgatory existed, it will always be true, and it will always be ' a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.' Add to this the remark of the Redeemer, that there are sins which shall not be forgiven either in this...

...asleep with godliness, had had great grace laid up for them. It is, therefore, a wholesome and holy thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." And, my friends, having quoted to you this passage, the authenticity of which book I shall endeavour...

...every condolence. May I ask of you, who loved JOHN in life, please don't forget him In death. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins. So, let us take the roses of our rosaries, the violets of our prayerful aspirations, the lilies of...

...every condolence. May I ask of you, who loved JOHN In life, please don't forget him In death. It Is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from then1 sins. So, let us take the roses of our rosaries, the violets of our prayerful aspirations, the...

...country, for the untold millions who fell in the struggle. Many of you surely have found that it is "a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from sins" (II Mach. XII, 46). This doctrine and practice, to fully according with the impulse of human...

...died January 29, aged 45. MARGARET NICHOLSON (Sister Agnes), of Cork, who died February u, aged 39. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from sin (2 Mac. xii. 46). RIP Annals. SUB TUUM PRESIDIUM CONFUGIMUS, SANCTA DEI GENITRIX NOSTRAS DEPRECATIONES...

...feeling of the Jewish people, who, in common with Judas the Maccabee held that "it was a good and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Though Shammai's opinions ap-proached the Christian doctrine of purgatory, they were not without error....

...be said to have believed in purgatory. And his belief is seconded by the writer who adds the phrase: "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." So, even those who, quite falsely, refuse to acknowledge that this second Book of Machabees is really...