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  • 11Prayers for the Dead — • Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle s Creed Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight …

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  • 12Prayer for the dead — Wherever there is a belief in the continued existence of man s personality through and after death, religion naturally concerns itself with the relations between the living and the dead. And where the idea of a future judgment or of purgatory… …

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  • 13Day of the Dead — This article is about the Latin American holiday. For other uses, see Day of the Dead (disambiguation). Day of the Dead ofrenda …

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  • 14The Sacrament of Penance —     The Sacrament of Penance     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Sacrament of Penance     Penance is a sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest s absolution to… …

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  • 15St. Michael the Archangel —     St. Michael the Archangel     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Michael the Archangel          (Hebrew Who is like God? ).     St. Michael is one of the principal Angels; his name was the war cry of the good angels in the battle fought in …

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  • 16The Bahama Islands —     The Bahama Islands     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Bahama Islands     (Or LUCAYOS)     The most northerly group of the West Indies, are a chain of coral islands lying between 21°42 and 27°34 N. lat., and 72°40 and 79°5 W. long., composed of …

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  • 17The Blessed Trinity —     The Blessed Trinity     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Trinity     This article is divided as follows:          I. Dogma of the Trinity;     II. Proof of the Doctrine from Scripture;     III. Proof of the Doctrine from Tradition;… …

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  • 18The Blessed Virgin Mary —     The Blessed Virgin Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Virgin Mary     The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.     In general, the theology and history of Mary the Mother of God follow the… …

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  • 19The Rite of Constantinople (Byzantine Rite) —     The Rite of Constantinople     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Rite of Constantinople     (Also BYZANTINE RITE.)     The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of sacraments and for various blessings, sacramentals, and exorcisms …

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  • 20Guild of All Souls — The Guild of All Souls is an Anglican devotional society dedicated to prayer for faithful departed Christians. As stated on its website, it is a devotional society praying for the souls of the Faithful Departed, and teaching the Catholic doctrine …

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