Sentences with phrase «hear our confession of»

Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptise, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

But if the father sat through the trial of his son, and saw the weight of the evidence, and maybe even heard the confession of his son to his crimes, the father would be forced to believe what he did not want to believe.

It begins in 1952 with Bishop Bilodeau called to a prison to hear the confession of a man he knew 40 years earlier.

Not exact matches

Upon hearing that comment Thursday morning, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin referred to it as a «confession that this is a campaign finance violation because they wanted to shut her up in October of 2016.»

While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary, who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts; hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.

Through memory, Augustine explains at various points in Book X of the Confessions, we are able to review our past actions and discern a variety of important themes: we can see when we were moving towards God and (conversely) when we were moving away from Him; when we discerned the good rightly and sought it properly and (conversely) when we misidentified the good and sought experiences or possessions that were bad for us; when God was calling us towards Himself, whether we heard His voice or not; and so on.

In the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar by the name of Etienne de Bourbon was preaching in the village of Sandrans, near Lyon, when he heard during confession that many of the local woman had....

Early in the narrative, after he has sought out a trusted priest to hear his confession, despite the risk entailed in the journey, Brossard thinks of absolution, a stay against his fear and guilt:

The prosecution argued not that the seal of confession was irrelevant, but either that Garnet must have heard of the plot outside of the confessional, or that the confession was not sacramental because the plotters lacked true contrition for what they were planning to do.

The state of New York recognized, in the landmark religious liberty case People v. Phillips (1813), that compelling a priest to testify about matters heard during confession would be a fundamental violation of Catholics» religious liberty:

As superior of the Oratory, he would oversee Smethwick, Harborne, the new workhouse, the ragged school, the Oratory school, his writings, his help for the poor, and his daily community practices, which included waiting at table, hearing confessions, baptising and marrying.

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

Many of us hear several collect prayers every week in worship, including prayers of adoration, invocation, confession, illumination and dedication.

Writing the Confessions about a decade after the cataclysmic event that altered the rest of his long and productive life, Augustine gave his readers a detailed account of his conversion — an event intimately intertwined with hearing and reading.

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

Think of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes seeking enlightenment in an opium trance; of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey meditating on a folio of Dante; or Agatha Christie's quiet Miss Marple hearing confessions at the tea table.

Matthew begins this chapter with a startling and sad confession: «I am far from the only gay Christian who has heard the claim that gay people will not inherit the kingdom of God.

One of the key sacraments is Holy Orders since only the priest says Mass, hears confessions, confirms, ordains and annoints.

It's a risky invitation to accept because it means living in the tension of hearing ourselves make the great confession «Jesus, you're the Messiah!»

God only knows some of the horrible things they have heard at confession and were allowed to keep it hidden.

I can tell you that many more lives would have been ruined had it not been for the hundreds of millions of confessions heard every year and the advice recieved and the grace given by God to overcome our weaknesses.

«In hearing confessions the priest is to remember that he is at once both judge and healer, and that he is constituted by God as a minister of both divine justice and divine mercy, so that he may contribute to the honour of God and the salvation of souls» (c. 978, s. 1).

But then I remember the feeling following confession and think how many confessions has a priest heard and the chances of him being shocked by my confession is not exactly high.

I quickly realized that an anemic understanding of sin leads to anemic confessions, robbing them of the power to transform the confessor and those hearing the confession.

What right has he, without ordination, to hear a soul's confession and to speak the divine word of forgiveness?

To Conrad Cordatus and Nicholas Hausmann he wrote triumphant letters on 6 July: «I am tremendously pleased to have lived to this moment when Christ has been publicly proclaimed by his staunch confessors in such a great assembly by means of this really most beautiful confession», and «Our confession (which our Philip prepared) has been, publicly read by Dr Christian [Beyer, Saxon Chancellor], right in the palace of the Emperor... There is no one in this whole Diet whom our friends praise more highly for his peacefulness than the Emperor himself... all are filled with affection and applause...» He had heard from Jonas that he had studied the Emperor's face during the reading of the Confession and there was a certain humanitas in it.

Sadly the pernicious misinformation that hearing confessions is forbidden during the Triduum still persists in the minds of many Parish Priests.

Blessed John Paul II made a point of hearing confessions himself in St. Peter's on Good Friday.

Morality was mainly a matter of learning the list of duties and prohibitions necessary for hearing confessions.

We still hear the odd story of a church using physical methods to extract a confession.

He or she must be someone who, hearing the full confession of our weakness and accepting it, is likely to become the vehicle for our hearing Christ say, «Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.»

Any minister who, like the writer, has heard many «confessions» of sin, made formally or informally by parishioners and friends, will be able to testify to the danger just noted.

Each day, at his quarters in Manhattan, he recites his morning prayers, celebrates or concelebrates Mass, hears confessions, and practices the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Annemarie Schimmel) This faith reminds one of a word of God that Pascal believed he had heard: «You would not seek me if you had not already found me,» (Œuvres complètes, I. 348) and of the confession in Romans, «We do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.»

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

It is refreshing to «hear your confession», and to know that there is a worldwide growing community of believers who are just as passionate and hungry for rightness as they ever were, but not as dogmatic or ungracious as we now realize we were in our teens, twenties, thirties, forties & even fifties.

Best Storytelling: (nominated by Sarah Styles Bessey): Jamie, The Very Worst Missionary, at POTSC with «You'd Be Surprised» «But that moment in front of the SurfWind motel came back in a flood of understanding a year later, when my friend said he needed to talk and I found him lying on the floor, just a pile of tears and snot, and I heard his confession through his sobs.

And when these brothers and sisters had been bound, the husband of one of them who had heard their confession approached them and said to them, «Do not be afraid, for it will be a good thing for you to die for such a cause».

I think the power (of confession, of owning our humanness) lies in the honesty, the acceptance of «being heard», and then hearing similar stories.

One would think that in more men the shell of secrecy would have had to open, the pent - in abscess to burst and gain relief, even though the ear that heard the confession were unworthy.

Most of the 200 responses were from women grateful to hear my confession, thanking me for letting them know they weren't alone and weren't a bad mom for having these feelings.

Hearing this kind of heartfelt, honest confession from such a man is an amazing testament to the power of Positive Discipline.

I've heard it in the late - night confessions of friends, who lean in close to whisper the ultimate taboo: «If I could do it over, I wouldn't have them.»

We wanted to verify the authenticity of the story, so we sent one of our writers to the church to hear his confession and to confirm if indeed he is the same Nana Wan that we all know.

The source who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to hear his confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.

As we sift through the rubble of the James Comey - hearing, I have a confession to make: My descriptions of the former FBI boss as J. Edgar Comey are accurate but incomplete...

Here's a neat little list of 10 deathbed confessions you will never hear (and why) to inspire you into kick - butt action!

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Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «Confessions of a Juggler,» in which she wrote: «I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of «crazy» in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.»