Sentences with phrase «prayer of absolution»

After explaining why we need Confession we will look at the priest's prayer of absolution, as the focus for the Children's preparation for this Sacrament.

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Requirements of personal confession of sin, absolution by a priest, fasting, restoration of broken relationships, and the reading of a long cycle of prayers prior to participation in the Eucharist have discouraged frequent reception.

Sometimes, the head of the parish offered a general absolution, and a reader chanted the preparatory prayers on the people's behalf.

Prayers, confession and absolution, holy unction and Holy Communion may all be part of the ministry offered to those who are dying.

The Ministry of Absolution has always been provided for in the English Prayer Book, but though not infrequently practiced in the seventeenth century it became almost obsolete in the eighteenth, as shown by the disappearance of definite references to it in the American Prayer Book of 1789.