Sentences with phrase «absolution for»

It has prescriptions for moral conduct; formulas for penance; demands to proselytize; absolution for sins (e.g., carbon offsets); its own apocalypse; paths to redemption; and an elaborate set of prescriptions and taboos based on the idea of purity.

So how many more times will Mann's climate cronies seek absolution for His Phoniness?»

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Phil Savage: Absolution for Hitman I get cynicism as a concept.

To some degree, we receive absolution for the mess that Colonial Marines was, but I fear that other problems could grind Alien down into a game that «could have been».

The film's focus on first Willoughby's absolution for not solving Angela's case, then Jason's for repeatedly abusing his power as a police officer, increasingly pull attention away from the victim, so that a teenage girl's rape and murder eventually becomes the springboard for a pair of bad cops» redemption.

Bishop Jakes, who heads the Dallas - based nondenominational church the Potter's House and is the host of a weekly broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, appears in the film in two modes as a charismatic preacher performing before an enraptured audience, and as a quiet, compassionate confessor, whose deep, rumbling voice seems to provide a kind of aural absolution for the troubled Michelle.

It is precisely Similac's shrewd offer of absolution for the «wrong» of using its own product that allows ads such as «I Accept You» and especially «The Mother» Hood» to hit so many nerves.

Just childish murderers who hide behind the cape of a retired Bronze Age super hero, and need absolution for their blood letting.

I have at most three decades more to live, just thirty years to sing my Savior's praise, seek absolution for my early ways.

Martin Luther by no means belonged to the healthy - minded type in the radical sense in which we have discussed it, and be repudiated priestly absolution for sin.

As for the Pope absolving abortion, at what point do you need absolution for a Catholic?

Absolution for those who confess to having an abortion does not mean «abortion is ok».

Typically, only certain priests have the power to grant absolution for the sin of abortion and to lift excommunications that have resulted from terminated pregnancies, according to a Vatican spokesman.

And then he asked absolution for my sins, and sent me forth to be a better boy, which I have tried to be, trying to pay particular attention, as instructed, to attending to women with respect and reverence, which is an assignment we should all share, it seems to me.

Usually, then, in my perhaps too extensive experience, the priest suggests, again gently, that some change in behavior be contemplated or undertaken, and then he asks absolution for the sinner, and blesses the penitent, and the penitent emerges from this riveting conversation thinking long thoughts.

Second, the members of the congregation have received absolution for their sins, and in doing so have begun to distinguish between healing and forgiveness.

The receiving of absolution for their sins.

«I won't tattle on my gay priest if you'll give me absolution for contraception» seems to have been the unspoken deal in many parishes since Humanae Vitae.

Legality, in the confused thinking of some, is equivalent to a societally bestowed absolution for doing what they otherwise know to be wrong.

Not exact matches

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

The trouble, Forgiveness 4 You intimates, isn't that absolution isn't «easy» enough; it's that it rarely occurs to us to ask for any in the first place.

The idea is to build him into a lifestyle brand: Forgiveness 4 You, a firm offering «expert forgiveness and absolution in exchange for a flat fee that ranges from $ 2,000 — $ 5,000 per sin.»

You can also see the Pastor privately for confession and absolution.

PLEASE STOP STEREOTYPING «The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself.

etc» and to «listen on demand» and search for «confession and absolution».

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

We can derive some comfort from George Bernard Shaw's bon mot, «The last Christian died on the cross,» for there is a certain absolution in realizing that we all fall pitifully short.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

However, instead of a reliance on humanity's own efforts to claw itself back some entitlement to salvation, there is a discernible wish for absolution from any responsibility at all.

Theologian John Saward believes Chesterton's autobiography is in the «same noble tradition» of Augustine's Confessions, and represents a «search for absolution,» and above all a key to «unlock Divine Mercy.»

«All the priests that are administering the sacrament of confession during World Youth Day have the general authority to give absolution from the penalty of excommunication for abortion if someone comes to confession... if someone has this need,» Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told CNN on Thursday, referring to the event that brought Pope Benedict XVI to Madrid on Thursday for a four - day visit.

What if she pleaded for absolution?

Closely connected to the need for meaning is the need for forgiveness and absolution.

Solomon, for instance, writes in the New Yorker that «the act of speaking or writing about your involvement is, inevitably, a plea for absolution.»

The Marian theology (especially Wagner's suggested conflation of the goddess Venus with Mary), the knight asking for absolution from the pope, the theme of «works righteousness,» the notion that Tannhäuser is saved by Elisabeth who both sacrifices herself for him on this earth and then in the afterlife intercedes before God on his behalf, and the fact that Tannhäuser himself is redeemed only to die» all these are, to the conservative Protestant at least, distortions of Christianity.

If God is so ready to forgive, so should parents be ready to forgive their children, husbands their wives and vice versa, priests the souls who come to them for absolution.

Francis's signature soundbite, the cardinal said, «has been very misused... because he was talking about someone who has already asked for mercy and been given absolution, whom he knows well».

For the Holy Spirit is the Absolution of Nothingness and does hold together everything in its bosom.

persuade not only individuals but also whole communities that, both for the living and the dead, remission and absolution of sins may be had by sacrifices and childish performances that they are pleased to call initiations and which they allege deliver us from all ills in the next world, where terrible things await the uninitiated.22

What about FORGIVENESS... Is forgiveness all about a legal, judicial need for «absolution» so that we are (legally) in «right standing with God» and thus «legally eligible» for both blessings and safe passage into the afterlife?

In either case, it suggests the movement from adoration, confession and absolution, and thanksgiving to the disciple's concern for God's world.

The presumption, of course, is that absolution will be granted: «If the confessor is in no doubt about the penitent's disposition and the penitent asks for absolution, it is not to be denied or deferred» (CIC, c. 980).

The confession itself is therefore rather perfunctory, the absolution given with a slight sense of «was that all you bothered me for?»

It may be appropriate for the penitent to be reminded that such withholding of absolution is an act of compassion.

After explaining why we need Confession we will look at the priest's prayer of absolution, as the focus for the Children's preparation for this Sacrament.

In which case, can we really blame those Catholics in irregular canonical and sacramental states who shop around for a priest who will give them absolution and / or Holy Communion?

The absolution rite, which includes a prayer for clemency for the deceased, was also given outside the church, in the courtyard inside San Pio X's compound, the priest said.

«And while we won't deny absolution to anyone that a good and zealous probabilist would absolve, we'll be far better able to help and guide those thirsting for something more.»

Luther made a confession of his sins to Bugenhagen, received absolution and prepared himself for death.