Winfrid Oldfield Burrows,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
(1911)
“ The thankful commemoration of the dead in the Eucharist was restored in 1661, but prayers for them remained, if they remained at all, veiled in ambiguous phrases. The Church of England has never forbidden prayers for the dead, however little she has used them in her public services. ”
Winfrid Oldfield Burrows,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
(1911)
“ PRAYERS 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 obtains, prayers are often offered on their behalf to the Higher Powers. Prayers for the dead are mentioned in 2 Maccabees xii. ”
Winfrid Oldfield Burrows,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
(1911)
“ Of the three forms of absolution in the Anglican Prayer Book, that in the Visitation of the Sick (disused in the church of Ireland by decision of the Synods of 1871 and 1877) runs “I absolve thee,” tracing the authority so to act through the church up to Christ: the form in the Communion Service is precative, while that in Morning and Evening Prayer is indicative indeed, but so general as not to imply anything like a judicial decree of absolution. In the Lutheran church also the practice of private confession survived the Reformation, together with both the exhibitive (I forgive, &c.) ”
