The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.

该教堂把灵媒和自称能与死者交谈的人都视为异端。

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But the Greek Church resists this practice; they believe the only place where people burn is a hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death.

但是希腊教会反对这种做法；他们认为，人们自焚的唯一地方是地狱，所以焚烧尸体是违背希腊人死后重生的观念的。

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And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

你要写信给撒狄教会的使者，说，那有神的七灵和七星的，说，我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。

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(SINGING) A few hours later, Mass was celebrated at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be the site where Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead.

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He was also due to lay a wreath at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, which has become a shrine for the British dead in the attack, and thank clergy and parishioners at the tiny church for welcoming the mourning relatives of the dead.

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When the missionaries returned they found them all baptized, all validly married for the Church and all their dead had had a Catholic funeral.

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