Not exact matches
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....
Cajetan had challenged Luther's insistence that those who
come to the sacrament of
penance are to believe confidently that they receive God's grace and forgiveness thereby; Luther's main defense appeals to Christ's words in Matthew 16:19:
They understood that Mary had
come from Heaven to call people to
penance and they took this very seriously, undergoing much physical discomfort with fasting and sacrifices.
And none is more real than that which
comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and
Penance.
Yet even he can scarcely understand that his rite of public
penance and purification will also be the rite of ordination of the great High Priest who is to
come, and thereafter of all of us who are to have access to the Holy of Holies because of his sacrifice.
If we are able to mention in general terms (with due caution regarding the seal) that many women have been greatly helped by the sacrament of
penance, that can in itself remove a barrier for some women who perhaps thought they would be rejected if they were to
come to confession.
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.»
«If he were half the God he claims to be,» Harrington blasphemes, «he would leave his heaven and
come here to do
penance in the presence of a suffering that he as God obscenely permits.»
Grace; forgiveness of sin belief but them
comes hell, prayer; fasting certain rituals;
penance certain meeting reading verses; join the Republican be a good Conservative they are saved protection of life in the Womb but what about every one else?.
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.
Certainly the extent of our moral disintegration is connected with a religious disintegration but we can not even
come in sight of a radical religious recovery until the churches and the people of this country begin to do
penance for the way we have tried to pour the new wine of the gospel into some peculiarly American bottles.
I've noticed in audiences that there are often people who, as
penance for whatever sins, have
come out to listen to me before, and you can tell that they see the line
coming.
We talk To The Wonder, Gangs of Wasseypur, Jump, Leviathan,
Penance, The Thieves, Here
Comes The Devil, The Bay, A Hijacking, Great Expectations, The Iceman, and more!
It supplied both food and a place for monks to
come do
penance or for spiritual retreats.