Praying for the dead

[po18guy]

**PROBLEM SOLVED

A very dear friend of ours who is priest in Austria and teacher for students of theology, gave me the hint:

The online bible I mentioned before is not too good.
This one is better:

usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm**
and here we find the vers I was talking about

usccb.org/nab/bible/2maccabees/2maccabees12.htm

oh - I’d be lost without this priest Dr. Spindelböck, whom I asked so often so much
spindelboeck.net/

BibleGateway is a Protestant site. They do not list the Deuterocanonical books, except in one area: On the left side of the home page toward the top you will see “versions”. Click on that and then scroll to the Douay-Rheims 1939 version, which has all of the books.

Christ’s peace.

 

[Bruno_Schulz]

**Thanks a lot
but I deleted the URL and have now as mentioned above

I anyhow only used it for English translation of my Bible only **

 

[po18guy]

Here is a different take on praying for the dead: Who can object to praying for the living dead?

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Should not anyone who claims Christ have no objection to praying for those who are technically alive, but declared dead by Christ? There is probably some sect that objects even to this.

 

[Bruno_Schulz]

**“Technically alive - but declared dead by Christ”
That’s the keyword
Alive are those who own live, Gods eternal Life within them:

1. Joh 5,12 + John 3,36:
   Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life. Whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.

Alive – much more alive then we ever could be, are those in the hemisphere of God. Those of whom we often think they’s be “dead”.
But all of them are alive. Might be they are not yet worthy enough, to get into the direct; the immediate proximity of God.

If we administer the last rites to a dying person, we, instead of that person, speak for him or her to God. All the same our commendatory prayer can be given as we know from the heard before in some excellent posts.
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