Sentences with phrase «penitent thief»
The final supreme act can repair much (like the penitent thief).
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He omits many important historical details such as the conscription of a bystander to carry Jesus» cross for him after he had stumbled and fallen, the confession of the Roman centurion, and Jesus» assurance of salvation to the penitent thief.
One bore a flagrant and blasphemous criminal, another a penitent thief, the third the Christ.
After all, Our Blessed Lord personally reconciled the penitent thief while hanging on the cross, granting him a plenary indulgence too.
There are profound insights into the priestly mercy of the Sacred Heart viewed from the perspective of the dying Penitent Thief.
It was this stream of thought that came to expression in the Passion narrative where Luke recorded Jesus as saying to the penitent thief; «today you shall be with me in Paradise».5 We must be careful to do justice to the fluid nature of the forms in which the resurrection hope was expressed, and to recognize that they were alternatives which could not be easily reconciled with each other.