Sentences with phrase «in penitential»

There we can participate in the penitential drama that is folded into the dark recesses of incarceration.

With this in mind, I opened my Book of Common Prayer wondering if I could spend 40 days in penitential reflection without becoming a Calvinist.

In penitential services, especially those held in schools, it is not uncommon to find non-Catholics, even non-Christians, approaching the priest.

Perhaps there is nothing scrooge - like in my penitential view of Advent, which holds me back from buying the tree.

Not exact matches

The penitential cloud of late medieval - Reformation worship continued to build in the neo-orthodox decades.

The future Kingdom of God, then, is not something which is to come in the course of time, so that to advance its coming one can do something in particular, perhaps through penitential prayers and good works, which become superfluous in the moment of its coming.

«Only love that is almighty can ground a joy that is free from anxiety,» says Ratzinger, and on this note can we happily partake in Mardi Gras celebrations and joyfully enter the penitential season of Lent.

Finally, even in certain peripheral questions of theology, but especially in the liturgy, penitential discipline, administration and similar matters, there are no definite methods and hard and fast rules which would be wholly good and without any possible dangers.

The tranquil mood projected by The Young Saint John the Baptist is a far cry from the haggard, penitential standing Baptist carved by Donatello a century and a half earlier in a static, pictorially oriented, late - medieval realist idiom.

The fact that in the Prayer Book there are such services as Morning and Evening Prayer, the Litany, the Penitential Office, and others, demonstrates that there are other ways.

On the hotly debated question of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the synod's report offers a solution of the «penitential path» or a period of reflection and penance which would allow the partners in a second marriage to receive communion.

Even in the midst of our penitential preparations, God moves before us.

Comparable in its depth is the great Penitential, probably the most poignant expression ever written of man's sense of his unworthiness in presence of the eternal realities in which he exists:

It seems like the medieval penitential system in multicultural dress — except that at MTS sinners are offered no clear practice of penance that can lead to absolution and reincorporation into the community.

Five types of Babylonian writings are discussed: (1) The Creation Story and the Flood Story, that is, the story of mythological beginnings; (2) hymns and prayers, including their penitential psalms; (3) ritual texts; (4) their legal code; and (5) omens, all of which find some correspondence in the Bibles of most people.

The daily offices of morning and evening prayer, the litany, the penitential offices, the provisions made for the care of the sick, the marriage of Christian people, the burial of the dead — these are all part of the great traditional experience of public or «common» prayer and praise, and they further establish us in relationship with God in Christ.

By loosening the hold of the medieval penitential system, the Reformers created a space in which Christians were free to follow the dictates of their own conscience.

In 1984, John Mellish, pastor of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, was sentenced to 60 days in a Florida jail for refusing to reveal the substance of a penitential conversation with a parishioner who had admitted to sexual abuse of a chilIn 1984, John Mellish, pastor of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, was sentenced to 60 days in a Florida jail for refusing to reveal the substance of a penitential conversation with a parishioner who had admitted to sexual abuse of a chilin a Florida jail for refusing to reveal the substance of a penitential conversation with a parishioner who had admitted to sexual abuse of a child.

First, those who imagine that behavior modification techniques are a twentieth century innovation may have forgotten how prevalent some behaviorist assumptions have been in the Christian tradition generally, and particularly in the early medieval monastic and penitential traditions.

We shall mention five types of Babylonian writings: (1) The Creation Story and the Flood Story, that is, the story of mythological beginnings; (2) hymns and prayers, including their penitential psalms; (3) ritual texts; (4) their legal code; and (5) omens, all of which find some correspondence in the Bibles of most people.

(A penitential psalm attributed to Tabiutual - Enlil, King of Nippur, as quoted by Morris Jastrow, Jr.: Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 333.)

After a time he gave up this penitential exercise of the door, and instead of it he took up his abode in a very small cell, and used the bench, which was so narrow and short that he could not stretch himself upon it, as his bed.

I think the offertory prayers and the additional Eucharistic prayers and the new rubrics as well as the penitential rite and the order of the final blessing and dismissal were well in place before the 1969 missal.

In his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoIn his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessor.

Take, again, the greatest of the so - called «penitential Psalms», the fifty - first — the classical expression, in all literature, of a soul burdened with a sense of sin.

In a radical departure from tradition, Francis said Holy Thursday Mass not at the ornately appointed Basilica of St. John Lateran, but in a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention centeIn a radical departure from tradition, Francis said Holy Thursday Mass not at the ornately appointed Basilica of St. John Lateran, but in a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention centein a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention center.

On the other hand, the total pessimism of much traditional Reformed theology, whether Calvinist or Lutheran, and its more recent revival, as well as the perverse denigration of humanity not stated but implied in Catholic penitential theology with its fear of human impulses and its dread of sexuality, is not Christian either.

In the second order of merit we can signal those which are sacramental, those connected with the praise of God and those which are broadly penitential:

Baptism is recalled not only every Easter, when the faithful renew their baptismal promises, but also at a sung Mass with the Asperges, where the people are sprinkled with water, in a rite which replaces the usual penitential rite.

Solemn and penitential in nature, it was explicitly a concession to human frailty and lacked the signs associated with sacramental marriage (in the eastern Churches, the Crowning, the singing of certain prayers, and the sharing of the Eucharist).

It was a translation, in the vigorous and accurate German he was beginning to enjoy writing, of the Seven Penitential Psalms, together with a commentary.

An Augustinian friar, Visitor of the group of friaries in the region, often preaching in the town church, at the age of thirty - two he was the successful local man, He had just published his first little book, a translation into German of the seven penitential psalms.

He suggested and «hoped» that other penal and penitential measures might achieve justice, «favour the good of souls and avoid scandal» in an expedited way, especially relevant given Fr Murphy's precarious health.

A study of completeness in the Psalms (7:9, 9:7, 15:2, 18:24, 26, 31, 33, 19:8, 14, 25:21, 26:1, 11, 37:18, 37, 38:4, 8, 41:13, 64:5, 7, 73:19, 78:72, 84:12, 2, 101:2, 6, 102:28, 104:35, 119:1, 80) will reveal much to us, e, g, in the second penitential psalm, 38, for my stupidity is a thorough disgrace, and there is no completeness in my flesh.

The pacific aspects of Christianity proved no deterrent to a warlike folk who saw in Peter the doughty knight with his broad sword cleaving clean the ear of the high priest's servant.27 The ethical demands of the gospel were laid with emphasis upon unbridled peoples, witness the early development of the penitentials.

(In appealing to this angelic and gnostic tradition the monks will one day threaten the penitential functions of the ordained clergy.)

While no such congregation exists in the RCA, a growing number of churches have forsaken the traditional pattern of a quarterly and very penitential observance for a more frequent and joyous form of celebration.

Fortunately for Ruth and the Yankees, a day in the city's jail ended at 4 o'clock rather than at midnight, allowing the one - day prisoners the benefit of the discrepancy between the solar and the penitential day.

His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.