Sentences with phrase «doing penance»

It almost looks as if MoMA is doing penance for the noisy abandon of the Isa Genzken retrospective in these sixth - floor galleries over the winter.

There's the dad (an ex-pastor sporting a lot of frown lines), the daughter (Juliette Lewis, doing penance for her sins in Natural Born Killers), and the inexplicable Chinese son.

A cynic might say Singer is atoning for having penned the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate; as for the director, one assumes he's not making up for the cinematic war crime of having helmed The Cobbler so much as doing penance for playing a poorly drawn journo in The Wire's final newsprint - stained season.

In the early Church the sinner was only formally reconciled after doing penance, sometimes public penance in which the parish might join with him on his behalf, for a certain number of days.

At the end of the month, each penny represents one minute I have to spend doing penance on the rooftop of my house to simulate what it is like to live with a contentious woman.

Next Friday I'll post some photos / video updating you on the biblical womanhood project — specifically my afternoon on the roof doing penance over the jar of contention (scheduled for tomorrow) and my first official etiquette lesson (scheduled for Monday).

The devotee may feel that he is buying himself free, or escaping worse sufferings hereafter, by doing penance now.

With a grand total of 89 cents in the Jar of Contention, I spent an hour and 29 minutes on the roof Monday morning doing penance for a month's worth of complaining, nagging, exaggeration, gossip, and snark.

Do penance on St. Joseph's day.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

«The practice is observed by all of regarding as an adulteress a woman who marries a second time while her husband yet lives, and permission to do penance is not granted her until one of them is dead.»

He even humbled the Emperor Henry IV, forcing him to submit at Canossa, in north Italy in 1077, and to do penance.

Well, we can be, but Dan Palotta of the WSJ points to tradition through our Puritan heritage and says charity was their response to the tensions within their doctrine, «they could do penance for their....

Since the fugitive showed «signs of conversion and detestation of his past life, and desired to do penance (of which he later did a great deal),» they accepted him as a postulant.

In theology we need not weep and wail or do penance in sackcloth and ashes, but anguish would well behoove us.

Have you done penances?

If a priest absolves the mortal sin why should I have to do penance as the sin has been forgiven?

His case was eventually referred to Rome, where he was found to be innocent of actual heresy but ordered to reject sixteen Lutheran propositions and do penance at the convento of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

«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.»

Anyone who is aware that they have committed a grave sin should not receive Holy Communion until they have confessed that sin, done penance and made a sincere effort to change their life.

The bishops have therefore decided that the best way of carrying out our Lord's command to do penance is for each of us to choose our own way of self - denial every Friday.»

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.

He relates what it was that sustained him: «I think that a bishop, in order to fulfil his role, must do penance, fast, listen to the Lord and pray for long periods in silence and solitude» (p. 70).

I went to confession and did penance, genuflected at the altar, dipped my fingers into holy water and made the sign of the cross and gave up chocolate at Lent.

I'll light candles and do penance.

It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.

Probably by early June, he had agreed that those who became severely ill and had done penance, could be accepted provided they secured certificates from the confessors and martyrs, receive reconciliation from presbyters and deacons, and by midsummer he had accepted the Roman position that all who had done penance could in the face of sickness be reunited.

He's done his penance, though, after Bud Selig made it his mission to suspend him — going so far as illegally obtaining evidence and obstructing a federal investigation to do so — and the Yankees tried ever so hard to keep Rodriguez from money he was contractually obligated to receive after the suspension.

But if this guy wins, all hopes of getting errant politicians to do penance anywhere but a CNN studio is gone forever.

Not Hazel Blears, who must continue to do penance for the spendthrift naughtiness that upset Salford.

Richardson, regarded as a sharp political operator, is now seen as having done penance for the Marshall Islands affair.

Instead, it makes us do penance as we watch a well - to - do Jersey wife and mom spiral out of control as she chugs red wine, snorts drugs and engages in illicit rough sex in between making lunches for her two kids.

But unlike some of us unreformed reformers, he's done penance by actually starting and running schools.

I later realized that this was code for «We've done our penance.

Trail boss Dal Frisco has his own past life to do penance for, and he leads the journey across miles of treacherous landscape and into unexplored territory the nuances of the human heart.

It supplied both food and a place for monks to come do penance or for spiritual retreats.

Not exact matches

Robert Chapman Jr., a hedge - fund manager in California, took a potshot at his former friend, observing, «I've heard it said that yoga is Dan's form of paying penance for what he does while outside the home, whether it be the office or elsewhere.

Do public penance?

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

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....

But the odd preference for penance does call for a deeper phenomenology of confession than theologians have yet put their minds to.

Known as the «Patroness of Mercy,» she was stabbed fourteen times by an attempted rapist, but forgave her assailant on her deathbed, hoping aloud he would find God — which he astonishingly did in prison, serving his remaining days in prayer and penance.

The problem with penance is only a perfect man can do it, but doesn't need it.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

Do we lead the congregation in embracing those who have waged war justly and, just as important, do we offer returning soldiers the gift of confession and penance as needeDo we lead the congregation in embracing those who have waged war justly and, just as important, do we offer returning soldiers the gift of confession and penance as neededo we offer returning soldiers the gift of confession and penance as needed?

She had been doing angry penance all her life for something that was not her fault.

If we do not know what role punishment plays for those convicted of crimes, how can we claim to understand what penance is for souls guilty of sin?

He lived as a group monk, prayed his office and practiced penance, and did all the things he was supposed to do.

They do not even wear sandals (Q 10:4), perhaps as a symbol of penance, perhaps only to attest that they, even if unprotected, nevertheless get by.

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?