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It is a holy thought to pray for the dead
On Friday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the beginning of the book of Maccabees (12:32-46) entitled "The sacrifice for the dead". Our treasure, which follows, is from a sermon by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop.
Gregory of Nazianzus, was an early Roman Christian theologian and prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 380 to 381. He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Gregory is…
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