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Let us mutually be mindful of each other.... On both sides let us always pray for each other, let us relieve our afflictions and distresses by a reciprocity of love and whichever of us goes hence before the other by the speed of the Divine favour, let our affection continue before the Lord, let not prayer for our brothers and sisters cease before the mercy of the Father (Ep. lvii. ad Cornel.). And in the days of the plague at Carthage, A. D. 252, he comforts his fellow citizens reminding them of
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All the souls who have departed this life still retaining their love for those who are in the world concern themselves for their salvation and aid them by their prayers and mediation with God. For it is written in the Book of the Maccabees, 'This is Jeremiah the prophet who always prays for the people' (in Cant. Hom. iii.). And in another work he says,
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It is my opinion that all those fathers who have fallen asleep before us fight on our side and aid us by their prayers (in Jesu Nave Hom. xvi. ch. 19). And again
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They (in that unseen life) understand who are worthy of Divine approval and are not only well disposed to these themselves, but coöperate with them in their endeavours to please God, they seek His favour on their behalf and with their prayers and intercessions they join their own. And again,
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These (in the Unseen Life) pray for us and bring help to our perishable race, and if I may so speak, take up arms alongside of it
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He still prays for the people, he says,
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And in his funeral sermon over his own father,
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I am satisfied that he accomplishes there now by his prayers more than he ever did by his teaching just in proportion as he approaches nearer to God after having shaken off the fetters of his body.