Sentences with phrase «christian penance»

In contrast to gnosticism, the acts of Christian penance, however simple or extreme, are not ends in themselves, but rather acts directed towards both positive growth and edification of the person, and acts of love towards the One who is carefully redeeming them.

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A third sacrament that belongs with baptism and Eucharist for the continuous strengthening in Christian identification with God is penance.

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

The «sacrament of penance» was part of the range of formal procedures which revolved round the Christian religion.

The Church then said that a Christian who had received the sacrament of penance, could by various good works, the saying of particular prayers or doing such pious works as assisting in the building of churches (by a cash payment) achieve release from some part of, sometimes all of, whatever «temporal punishment» he might still be due to undergo after death.

In the Judaeo - Christian and Islamic religious traditions, fasting is an act of observance, atonement, penance, self - control, or preparation for rituals or holidays.

Christians who had committed a mortal sin owed God seven year's penance.