Sentences with phrase «heard confessions in»

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

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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..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..in the village of Sandrans, near Lyon, when he heard during confession that many of the local woman had....

A pastor is too busy leading people in worship to attend workshops on how to lead people in worship, and his duties in the confessional prevent him from attending seminars on how to hear confessions.

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 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:

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.

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.

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!»

But as every sensitive person ought to know and as every councilor (and every priest who has «heard confessions») does know, man's root problem is not in these particular acts.

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

«In the general confession we talk about being miserable offenders - this is a criticism I've often heard,» he said.

«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).

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.

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.

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

After service the clergy were often engaged in classes, hearing confessions, or attending to special cases.

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.

In my work as faculty, presenter and leadership coach, I hear this confession from adults, 18 - 80.

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.»

Over and over and over in Christian circles we hear these prayer requests and confessions.

We have a confession to make: We've been hearing a lot about living an Ayurvedic lifestyle and have been politely nodding our heads in agreement when the term comes up.

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.»

Personal Confessions, a new line on the market, is just as it sounds, a line to call to divulge your deepest secrets with singles in your area who are ready to hear whatever it is you have to say.

In fact, if I hadn't known it was Stan playing Gillooly, I might not have even recognized the world - famous Marvel actor — a confession he's glad to hear.

Having a conversation with Assange results in hearing about one of his many accomplishments or an oddly timed confession about the challenges peppering his life.

The movie begins with Lavelle hearing a confession from an unseen man who says that for seven years, beginning at age five, he was raped by a priest, now dead, and that he'll take revenge by killing a «good priest» — Lavelle — in a week's time.

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If «stunned» is the adjective we keep hearing about the reaction to the news, there's good reason for that, right at the core of the UK's political elite: in an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, CNN's Wolf Blitzer today has heard one of the most telling confessions of how things went this way, as Blair talks of the Labour Party failing to mobilize its voters by explaining to them, «This was not a protest vote.»

For example, Andrew has won suppression hearings, which have resulted in trial courts prohibiting prosecutors from presenting improperly obtained client confessions, incriminating statements, witness identifications, and various forms of physical evidence.