Monday, May 9, 2016

Anew week brings Day 91 with the BC

 
 
 
Should the faithful on earth, through the communion of saints, honor the blessed in heaven and pray to them? The faithful on earth, through the communion of saints, should honor the blessed in heaven and pray to them, because they are worthy of honor and as friends of God will help the faithful on earth.

Let us now praise men of renown, and our fathers in their generation. (Ecclesiasticus 44:1)

Can the faithful on earth, through the communion of saints, relieve the sufferings of the souls in purgatory? The faithful on earth, through the communion of saints, can relieve the sufferings the souls in purgatory by prayer, fasting, and other good works, by indulgences, and by having Masses offered for them.

It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. (II Maccabees 12:46)



Further reading: CCC 954-959

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