Sentences with phrase «make penance»

Make penance fun for both you and your furkid by getting physical together.

Only a perfect man can make penance but it is the non-perfect man that needs to make penance... Oh how great is Christ to come die for our sins.

Not exact matches

(And posting selfies, for which the aforementioned second - grade nuns would probably make him kneel on No. 2 pencils for an hour as penance.)

Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgment and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc., and so by your doubt you make Christ a liar, which is a horrible sin....

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

Penance: We make up for our sins and lack of love by showing more love to others in our prayers and actions.

My point is simple and probably way off base, but why not just let the kids play and make them have spinach for their penance?

Going all out to make yourself feel better for being fooled / conned into a penance system.

It was a way of making straight the path for the Lord, which came not through the poinsettias but through penance, through fasting, through contemplation of the mystery of «God with us.»

Anyone who is aware that they have committed a grave sin should not receive Holy Communion until they have confessed that sin, done penance and made a sincere effort to change their life.

It may be that varying degrees of penance and temporal punishment are incurred by the degree to which one has offended but the imperfect can never make itself perfect.

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour.

Simpson either does not know or does not care that «pardon of their penance» refers to a work, which would here be made good by the strenuous effort to save his wife.

Crooker, «It would have made a wonderful difference in the ministry of penance to ordinary, good people struggling with human weakness: the discipline of regular confession, instead of falling into general disuse, would have found fresh vitality and fruitfulness.»

I went to confession and did penance, genuflected at the altar, dipped my fingers into holy water and made the sign of the cross and gave up chocolate at Lent.

In the early church, for example, exceptions were made for remarried couples after a period of penance, Kasper has argued.

Women who, in the past, have used birth control should be made to publicly give penance for their transgressions.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

The fellowship was to manifest itself chiefly in the common celebration of the Lord's Supper, for which all members would be expected to make themselves ready by attending a special preparatory service of penance, confession, and absolution.

He's done his penance, though, after Bud Selig made it his mission to suspend him — going so far as illegally obtaining evidence and obstructing a federal investigation to do so — and the Yankees tried ever so hard to keep Rodriguez from money he was contractually obligated to receive after the suspension.

A cynic might say Singer is atoning for having penned the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate; as for the director, one assumes he's not making up for the cinematic war crime of having helmed The Cobbler so much as doing penance for playing a poorly drawn journo in The Wire's final newsprint - stained season.

Prominence is given to the ghost of Idris Elba's Stacker Pentecost, as newcomer John Boyega (making his debut as a film producer) plays his estranged son Jake, who ends up piloting a Jaeger as penance for his playboy antics.

Instead, it makes us do penance as we watch a well - to - do Jersey wife and mom spiral out of control as she chugs red wine, snorts drugs and engages in illicit rough sex in between making lunches for her two kids.

Either he will divorce his wife, which will disgrace her and leave her destitute (she was never taught to work or be independent, having always been expected to make a brilliant marriage), or, as a penance, she will have to accompany him on a

I'm sure my penance is to now have to write many, many other books that will undoubtedly have issues with them that make them hard to publish!

the sleeper train was a disaster we were not permitted to use our original allocated sleeper cabin, a health and safety issue.we were eventually put into Kevin's cabin after they made into double, Kevin went elsewhere and one of the train wheels under the cabin had wheel flats so it was banging all the way to Penance, no sleep that night