this beautiful form of salutation: 'Praised be Jesus Christ for evermore. Amen.' (Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.)
This mode of saluting one another is quite common in Germany and Switzerland. An indulgence of one hundred days has been granted by Sixtus V. in 1587, and by Benedict XIII. in 1728, to those who salute each other, the one saying, 'Praised be Jesus Christ, ' and the other answering, ' Amen, ' or ' For evermore, Amen. ' To those who have generally used this form of salutation during their life a Plenary Indulgence is granted at the hour of death. The same indulgences are imparted to those who teach others this holy practice.
§ 1. Jesus Christ the Promised Messias.
9. How do we know that Jesus Christ is the 'Messias' or 'Redeemer' promised by God?
We know it because in Him has been fulfilled all that the prophets have foretold of the Redeemer, as may be seen in the life and sufferings of Christ. (On the prophets see Short Hist, of Revealed Rel., 17.)
10. What have the prophets foretold of the Messias?
1. The time of His coming, the circumstances of His birth, of His life. Passion, and death; 2. His Resurrection and Ascension, and the sending down of the Holy Ghost; 3. The destruction of Jerusalem, which happened after His death; the rejection of the Jews, and the conversion of the Gentiles; and 4. The founding, spreading, and duration of His Church.
11. How did they indicate the time of His coming?
The Prophet Daniel (ix. 24, etc.) foretold that not quite seventy weeks of years—i.e., 490 years — should elapse from the time when it was commanded that Jerusalem should be rebuilt, until the death of Christ; 2. Jacob prophesied that at the time of the coming of the Messias the sceptre should have been taken away from Juda. Others again foretold that then the Temple of Jerusalem should still exist, and the world be in great
