To find out more
about The Penance Project and why Catholics confess please visit: http://www.thepenanceproject.org
Actually it's
about penance, not necessarily sacrifice.
Not exact matches
There was, to be sure, a pastoral problem of the «troubled conscience» in the late medieval Church, brought
about — to oversimplify — by the convergence of certain unresolved issues in Augustine's theology of grace with certain developments in the canon law of
penance.
If we met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable not to his human vanity, for which he would need to do bitter
penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go
about it?
It has been estimated that in mid-thirteenth-century Languedoc
about 1 \ % of cases resulted in execution, 10 \ % imprisonment and the rest lesser
penances.
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?.
Twitter buzzed last week with proclamations of Lenten sacrifices, alongside plenty of jokes
about what to give up for the 40 days of
penance leading up to Easter.
What
about REPENTANCE... Is repentance a matter of contrition and genuine sorrowfulness as some sort of...
penance, or... «heart payment» to somehow get God's attention, or is it simply a matter of turning away from one direction and going in another wiser direction that is more closely aligned with our Source?
Prayer,
penance, ready acceptance of each other, honest love - and synthesis: these are vital tools for bringing
about peace.
Penance is more
about working towards being better and correcting for sins against God.
Practical
penance no. 2: I promise to desist from incorrect statements
about the bishops» speaking and voting record.
Because old - school Greek storytellers were all
about the eye - for - an - eye style of justice, Artemis demands that Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter as
penance.
It's all Jacob knows, though he has a few fleeting memories of his life before, and he has internalized Father Grace's ideas
about condemnation,
penance, and the impending doomsday.
He's powerless to do anything
about it — until one day he faces several of the killers and exacts a chilling
penance.
He gave just
about everyone ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys to say as their
penance.
Paula does pro bono work as
penance for her guilt
about calling 911 and getting her mother arrested.
What??? They gave
penances just for being found chatting after dark in a totally innocent way, because monasteries were
about «spiritual athletic training» (East) or «spiritual soldiering» (West), and either way you were supposed to be sleeping in your own cot after lights out.
Breath of the Wild changed that fact with such apparent ease that not only am I embarrassed
about my previous Zelda dislike, I am actively seeking out previous titles to replay and reappraise as a sort of
penance.
And while the President lectures us
about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose
penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.
It's
about whether society recognizes their potential for
penance, for redemption.