Sentences with phrase «on penitence»

61 On Penitence, 9.

He can only declare God's forgiveness and real forgiveness depends partly on the penitence of the sinner and on the true Christian character of the priest.

Neither cynical nor saccharine, it is a vision built on both penitence and celebration before God, beckoning pagan and pilgrim alike.

Ibid.; cf. Tertullian, On Penitence, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol.

Not exact matches

Even if we've set out on the Lenten pilgrimage on Ash Wednesday and taken every step in penitence and prayer, we are still not prepared for the arrival.

As has become a tradition here on the blog, I've compiled a list of 40 ideas that I hope will help you make the most of this season of reflection, penitence, and preparation.

As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

And since from now on the mighty general is poor in this conflict and penitence, he assures him of his peace.

From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.

Up to this time there has been little indication of penitence on the part either of the excommunicator or the excommunicated.

It is a paradox of our faith — but one that Christian living validates — that we should feel assured of our salvation when our lives have been committed to God in Christ; yet at the same time we should «press on,» in humility and continuing penitence, leaving it to God to judge our status before him.

Now why does Paul, and the early church generally, associate with Jesus this opportunity of fellowship with God on the basis of penitence and faith?

On the other hand, if one is relying upon God's forgiveness, or grace, no degree of mere obedience as such is required, only penitence and faith.

This meaning has no other expression than the new quality which penitence confers on suffering.

Christmas and the season of preparation that precedes it, the time of special penitence during Lent, Holy Week and above all Good Friday, Easter Day, the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost: here is a regular round of observance that provides variety in such churches as observe it — and they are increasing in number, in all denominations.

«It is essential to understand well the sacrament of penitence requires the personal dialogue between the penitent and the confessor and the absolution by the confessor,» Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters on Wednesday.

Now if a Jew was to think on these lines at all, and with all his heritage he could not avoid doing so, he was bound to think in terms of sacrifice, for it was through penitence expressed in terms of sacrifice that sin could be forgiven.

In the services of confession and penitence which practically everywhere, preceded the celebration of the Lord's Supper the people were examined on their faith.

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), DCP Francis Enobore who spoke on behalf of the Controller General of Prisons, Ja'afaru Ahmed, commended the sponsors and PERMNET members for their support and objective reportage noting that prison connotes an environment where offenders are given opportunity and assistance to show penitence.

I feared that perhaps I had been too hard on him, the weight of penitence evident not just in his eyes but in his slumped shoulders and the shuffle of his feet.