Sentences with phrase «prayer for the dead»

Nevertheless, the mass casualties inspired the Church of England to adopt some sort of prayer for the dead, which originally had been one of the more noticeable differences between Catholics and Protestants.

Masses were hurriedly said, and in the chantries established for prayers for the dead, masses were often neglected or grouped together.

The more orthodox Muslims, however, condemn such practices as non-Islamic and limit themselves to offering prayers for the dead; and the extremely orthodox Muslims would never visit a tomb, for they believe that once a man is dead his connection with the living is ended forever.

At a time when prayer for the dead has declined and the funerals of non-practising Catholics can more closely resemble a canonisation than a requiem, I would recommend teaching those relevant truths which we do know for certain.

The fury of this destruction may be traced to the sacred or sometimes miraculous reputations of some images, or to their association with prayers for the dead, or perhaps to social causes.

Purgatory isn't a corrupt teaching, in the Bible you will find references to prayers for the dead if there is no hope for them then why would we be directed to pray for them by God.

By outlawing prayer for the dead and denying that the saints could pray for us, the Reformation «stripped religion of mediation and intimacy... with the dead,» transforming it into «something strictly for the living,... more pragmatically focused on this world.»

Prayers for the dead led to endowments, presumably perpetual, for the saying of masses for the repose of the souls of the departed.

The family man (Mr. Stern) is even uncool enough to worry whether the security guard they've killed had any children and to suggest prayers for the dead.

To Sunday, Advent, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost others were added, among them Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi, saints» days, and All Souls» Day (for prayers for the dead).

The prayer for a dead person is an obligation of the whole community.

Muslims are required to prepare their dead for burial by cleaning the body and wrapping it from head to foot in unstitched cloth; the body is then placed on a bed and the mourners stand in line and, led by one of them, join in the prayer for the dead person.

They address such topics as the Virgin Mary, the saints, the Eucharist, the papacy, the priesthood, death and dying, prayers for the dead, hell, and the Inquisition.

Some Protestant churches object to prayers for the dead.

The Baptism service was much simplified and in the funeral service all prayers for the dead were omitted.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.